High-end wines gathering dust in the cellar

Wines that cost less than $9, however, are seeing increased sales

By Jerry Hirsch / The Bulletin
November 30, 2008

In most years, store manager Diana Hirst considers herself lucky if she can snag six bottles of $265 Araujo Napa Valley cult Cabernet Sauvignon to stock in her Costa Mesa, Calif., wine shop.

This year, she can get dozens — a sign of how the Wall Street meltdown is rippling across the....

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