Wants or needs?

If you were ever in any doubt about whether you should try to satisfy wants or needs then this article in Slate about buying and drinking a spectacular white Burgundy should clarify the matter for ever.

Mike Steinberger not only paid $700 for the bottle of hauntingly good 1996 Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne, a grand cru white Burgundy, he drove away from the restaurant feeling that he had paid a bargain price.