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Article: The feast where the Nebuchadnezzar of wine turned into water.(News)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2006
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THIS is a biblical story of sorts about a man who, having reached three score years and 10, planned a great feast.
Actually his name is Desmond Dall, he's a retired orthopaedic surgeon who lives in Hermanus, and at a recent charity auction in aid of a street children's home in Kleinmond, he paid R10 000 for a giant bottle of red wine.
If anything, it was even bigger than a Nebuchadnezzar, which holds the equivalent of about 20 ordinary-sized bottles. This bottle contained 18 litres, or 24 bottles' worth. It was in a box with rope handles and required two men to carry.
Anyway, it was as near as dammit to a Nebuchadnezzar, who all of you will ...