I’m very glad we drank it, rather than saved it. Just to say we did it.

….

Of course, after a certain point, its… well… a law of diminishing returns.

A $20 bottle of wine often will taste better than a $10 bottle. (Even if you rule out the psychological factors.)
Maybe even “twice as good”, seeing as there’s some pretty bad $10 wine.

An $80 bottle of wine might often taste better than a $20 bottle. Unlikely that its going to taste “four times as good”, unless its a pretty bad $20 wine, or a fantastic $80 bottle.

But beyond that…?

They had 10 year old bottles of the same type of wine for $950 or thereabouts. Ours was 23 years old.

So we can rest very happy knowing that we’ve properly enjoyed the prize of our wine collection, and that it would probably have cost us four figures if we had bought it at the restaurant. Its probably not 100 or 200 times better than the ordinary table wine we’d buy, but it was good. Very good. It’ll be a story we can keep.