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These are the bottles I’d have bought with my $1,000 (well, make that $1,025)—an eclectic mix of wines to drink immediately and wines to cellar for a while.

2004 Joseph Drouhin Chassagne-Montrachet Marquis de Laguiche (2 bottles at $85 each) This intensely minerally white Burgundy is my friend The Collector’s current "house" wine. It’s delicious now but could benefit from aging.

2003 Clos Saint Jean Deus Ex Machina Châteauneuf-du-Pape (3 bottles at $90 each) Robert M. Parker, Jr., called the 2003 and 2005 vintages of this wine what he’d want to drink on his deathbed.

2001 Trimbach Clos Ste. Hune Riesling (2 bottles at $150 each) This Alsace Riesling, from a three-acre vineyard, is considered by some to be the greatest white wine in France. It is incredibly long-lived, requiring decades of aging.

2001 Sandrone Cannubi Boschis (1 bottle at $135) One of the greatest of the modernist Barolo producers, Sandrone, turned out a remarkably concentrated, lush wine in 2001. It will be even better after five or 10 years of aging.

Billecart-Salmon Nonvintage Brut Rosé (1 magnum at $150) This lovely, delicate wine is one of my absolute favorite rosé Champagnes.