I 'm just going to play a brief video clip . Video : 50,000 pounds . On the fifth of December 1985 , a bottle of 1787 Lafitte was sold for 105,000 pounds -- nine times the previous world record . Mr. Forbes . The buyer was Kip Forbes , son of one of the most flamboyant millionaires of the 20th century . The original owner of the bottle turned out to be one of the most enthusiastic wine buffs of the 18th century . Château Lafitte is one of the greatest wines in the world , the prince of any wine cellar . Benjamin Wallace : Now , that 's about all the videotape that remains of an event that set off the longest-running mystery in the modern wine world . And the mystery existed because of a gentleman named Hardy Rodenstock . In 1985 , he announced to his friends in the wine world that he had made this incredible discovery . Some workmen in Paris had broken through a brick wall , and happened upon this hidden cache of wines -- apparently the property of Thomas Jefferson . 1787 , 1784 . He would n ' t reveal the exact number of bottles , he would not reveal exactly where the building was and he would not reveal exactly who owned the building . The mystery persisted for about 20 years . It finally began to get resolved in 2005 because of this guy . Bill Koch is a Florida billionaire who owns four of the Jefferson bottles , and he became suspicious . And he ended up spending over a million dollars and hiring ex-FBI and ex-Scotland Yard agents to try to get to the bottom of this . There 's now ample evidence that Hardy Rodenstock is a con man , and that the Jefferson bottles were fakes . But for those 20 years , an unbelievable number of really eminent and accomplished figures in the wine world were sort of drawn into the orbit of these bottles . I think they wanted to believe that the most expensive bottle of wine in the world must be the best bottle of wine in the world , must be the rarest bottle of wine in the world . I became increasingly , kind of voyeuristically interested in the question of you know , why do people spend these crazy amounts of money , not only on wine but on lots of things , and are they living a better life than me ? So , I decided to embark on a quest . With the generous backing of a magazine I write for sometimes , I decided to sample the very best , or most expensive , or most coveted item in about a dozen categories , which was a very grueling quest , as you can imagine . ( Laughter ) This was the first one . A lot of the Kobe beef that you see in the U. S. is not the real thing . It may come from Wagyu cattle , but it 's not from the original , Appalachian Hyogo Prefecture in Japan . There are very few places in the U. S. where you can try real Kobe , and one of them is Wolfgang Puck's restaurant , CUT , in Los Angeles . I went there , and I ordered the eight-ounce rib eye for 160 dollars . And it arrived , and it was tiny . And I was outraged . It was like , 160 dollars for this ? And then I took a bite , and I wished that it was tinier , because Kobe beef is so rich . It 's like foie gras -- it 's not even like steak . I almost could n ' t finish it . I was really happy when I was done . ( Laughter ) Now , the photographer who took the pictures for this project for some reason posed his dog in a lot of them , so that 's why you 're going to see this recurring character . Which , I guess , you know , communicates to you that I did not think that one was really worth the price . White truffles . One of the most expensive luxury foods by weight in the world . To try this , I went to a Mario Batali restaurant in Manhattan -- Del Posto . The waiter , you know , came out with the white truffle knob and his shaver , and he shaved it onto my pasta and he said , you know , " Would Signore like the truffles ? " And the charm of white truffles is in their aroma . It 's not in their taste , really . It 's not in their texture . It 's in the smell . These white pearlescent flakes hit the noodles , this haunting , wonderful , nutty , mushroomy smell wafted up . 10 seconds passed and it was gone . And then I was left with these little ugly flakes on my pasta that , you know , their purpose had been served , and so I 'm afraid to say that this was also a disappointment to me . There were several -- several of these items were disappointments . ( Laughter ) Yeah . The magazine would n ' t pay for me to go there . ( Laughter ) They did give me a tour , though . And this hotel suite is 4,300 square feet . It has 360-degree views . It has four balconies . It was designed by the architect I. M. Pei . It comes with its own Rolls Royce and driver . It comes with its own wine cellar that you can draw freely from . When I took the tour , it actually included some Opus One , I was glad to see . 30,000 dollars for a night in a hotel . This is soap that 's made from silver nanoparticles , which have antibacterial properties . I washed my face with this this morning in preparation for this . And it , you know , tickled a little bit and it smelled good , but I have to say that nobody here has complimented me on the cleanliness of my face today . ( Laughter ) But then again , nobody has complimented me on the jeans I 'm wearing . These ones GQ did spring for -- I own these -- but I will tell you , not only did I not get a compliment from any of you , I have not gotten a compliment from anybody in the months that I have owned and worn these . I do n't think that whether or not you 're getting a compliment should be the test of something's value , but I think in the case of a fashion item , an article of clothing , that 's a reasonable benchmark . That said , a lot of work goes into these . They are made from handpicked organic Zimbabwean cotton that has been shuttle loomed and then hand-dipped in natural indigo 24 times . But no compliments . ( Laughter ) Thank you . Armando Manni is a former filmmaker who makes this olive oil from an olive that grows on a single slope in Tuscany . And he goes to great lengths to protect the olive oil from oxygen and light . He uses tiny bottles , the glass is tinted , he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas . And he actually -- once he releases a batch of it , he regularly conducts molecular analyses and posts the results online , so you can go online and look at your batch number and see how the phenolics are developing , and , you know , gauge its freshness . I did a blind taste test of this with 20 people and five other olive oils . It tasted fine . It tasted interesting . It was very green , it was very peppery . But in the blind taste test , it came in last . The olive oil that came in first was actually a bottle of Whole Foods 365 olive oil which had been oxidizing next to my stove for six months . ( Laughter ) A recurring theme is that a lot of these things are from Japan -- you 'll start to notice . I do n't play golf , so I could n ' t actually road test these , but I did interview a guy who owns them . Even the people who market these clubs -- I mean , they 'll say these have four axis shafts which minimize loss of club speed and thereby drive the ball farther -- but they 'll say , look , you know , you 're not getting 57,000 dollars worth of performance from these clubs . You 're paying for the bling , that they 're encrusted with gold and platinum . The guy who I interviewed who owns them did say that he 's gotten a lot of pleasure out of them , so ... Oh , yeah , you know this one ? This is a coffee made from a very unusual process . The luwak is an Asian Palm Civet . It 's a cat that lives in trees , and at night it comes down and it prowls the coffee plantations . And apparently it 's a very picky eater and it , you know , homes in on only the ripest coffee cherries . And then an enzyme in its digestive tract leeches into the beans , and people with the unenviable job of collecting these cats' leavings then go through the forest collecting the , you know , results and processing it into coffee -- although you actually can buy it in the unprocessed form . That 's right . Unrelatedly -- ( Laughter ) Japan is doing crazy things with toilets . ( Laughter ) There is now a toilet that has an MP3 player in it . There 's one with a fragrance dispenser . There 's one that actually analyzes the contents of the bowl and transmits the results via email to your doctor . It 's almost like a home medical center -- and that is the direction that Japanese toilet technology is heading in . This one does not have those bells and whistles , but for pure functionality it 's pretty much the best -- the Neorest 600 . And to try this -- I could n ' t get a loaner , but I did go into the Manhattan showroom of the manufacturer , Toto , and they have a bathroom off of the showroom that you can use , which I used . It 's fully automated -- you walk towards it , and the seat lifts . The seat is preheated . There 's a water jet that cleans you . There 's an air jet that dries you . You get up , it flushes by itself . The lid closes , it self-cleans . Not only is it a technological leap forward , but I really do believe it 's a bit of a cultural leap forward . I mean , a no hands , no toilet paper toilet . And I want to get one of these . ( Laughter ) This was another one I could not get a loaner of . Tom Cruise supposedly owns this bed . There 's a little plaque on the end that , you know , each buyer gets their name engraved on it . ( Laughter ) To try this one , the maker of it let me and my wife spend the night in the Manhattan showroom . Lights glaring in off the street , and we had to hire a security guard and all these things . But anyway , we had a great night's sleep . And you spend a third of your life in bed . I do n't think it 's that bad of a deal . ( Laughter ) This was a fun one . This is the fastest street-legal car in the world and the most expensive production car . I got to drive this with a chaperone from the company , a professional race car driver , and we drove around the canyons outside of Los Angeles and down on the Pacific Coast Highway . And , you know , when we pulled up to a stoplight the people in the adjacent cars kind of gave us respectful nods . And it was really amazing . It was such a smooth ride . Most of the cars that I drive , if I get up to 80 they start to rattle . I switched lanes on the highway and the driver , this chaperone , said , " You know , you were just going 110 miles an hour . " And I had no idea that I was one of those obnoxious people you occasionally see weaving in and out of traffic , because it was just that smooth . And if I was a billionaire , I would get one . ( Laughter ) This is a completely gratuitous video I 'm just going to show of one of the pitfalls of advanced technology . This is Tom Cruise arriving at the " Mission : Impossible III " premiere . When he tries to open the door , you could call it " Mission : Impossible IV . " There was one object that I could not get my hands on , and that was the 1947 Cheval Blanc . The ' 47 Cheval Blanc is probably the most mythologized wine of the 20th century . And Cheval Blanc is kind of an unusual wine for Bordeaux in having a significant percentage of the Cabernet Franc grape . And 1947 was a legendary vintage , especially in the right bank of Bordeaux . And just together , that vintage and that chateau took on this aura that eventually kind of gave it this cultish following . But it 's 60 years old . There 's not much of it left . What there is of it left you do n't know if it 's real -- it 's considered to be the most faked wine in the world . Not that many people are looking to pop open their one remaining bottle for a journalist . So , I 'd about given up trying to get my hands on one of these . I 'd put out feelers to retailers , to auctioneers , and it was coming up empty . And then I got an email from a guy named Bipin Desai . Bipin Desai is a UC Riverside theoretical physicist who also happens to be the preeminent organizer of rare wine tastings , and he said , " I 've got a tasting coming up where we 're going to serve the ' 47 Cheval Blanc . " And it was going to be a double vertical -- it was going to be 30 vintages of Cheval Blanc , and 30 vintages of Yquem . And it was an invitation you do not refuse . I went . It was three days , four meals . And at lunch on Saturday , we opened the ' 47 . And you know , it had this fragrant softness , and it smelled a little bit of linseed oil . And then I tasted it , and it , you know , had this kind of unctuous , porty richness , which is characteristic of that wine -- that it sort of resembles port in a lot of ways . There were people at my table who thought it was , you know , fantastic . There were some people who were a little less impressed . And I was n ' t that impressed . And I do n't -- call my palate a philistine palate -- so it does n ' t necessarily mean something that I was n ' t impressed , but I was not the only one there who had that reaction . And it was n ' t just to that wine . Any one of the wines served at this tasting , if I 'd been served it at a dinner party , it would have been , you know , the wine experience of my lifetime , and incredibly memorable . But drinking 60 great wines over three days , they all just blurred together , and it became almost a grueling experience . And I just wanted to finish by mentioning a very interesting study which came out earlier this year from some researchers at Stanford and Caltech . And they gave subjects the same wine , labeled with different price tags . A lot of people , you know , said that they liked the more expensive wine more -- it was the same wine , but they thought it was a different one that was more expensive . But what was unexpected was that these researchers did MRI brain imaging while the people were drinking the wine , and not only did they say they enjoyed the more expensively labeled wine more -- their brain actually registered as experiencing more pleasure from the same wine when it was labeled with a higher price tag . Thank you . </content


Synopsis for " Enemy Within , Enemy Without " James Rhodes and Wanda Maximoff ride in Stark Industries' new water strider . They encounter unidentified enemy warcraft ahead . James evades the warcraft's torpedoes and destroys all enemies . Tony calls them and congratulates James on completing the first part of the mission and heads to Emerald Cove , Sardinia to finish the second part . At Emerald Cove , a photographer takes pictures of international supermodel Alana Ulanova in her bathing suit . A drill tank suddenly pops out of the ground and the Mandarin's warriors climb out and takes over the sea cove . When Whirlwind calls the Mandarin , Modok warns him against harming the world famous celebrities on the island to attract attention . The Mandarin decides to keep an eye on Modok to see where this sudden sympathy comes from . Tony Stark and his team of super-heroes receive an alarm telling them that an intruder has entered the ammo dump in the arsenal compound . Iron Man and his team to find that the intruder is Modok , who claims sanctuary and offers to join them . Modok say he can provide important information , but Iron Man's team still does not trust him . Modok becomes enraged and wires himself to the system , and threatens to blow up the facility if they do not agree to his exchange . Back at the Emerald Cove , Alana sneaks away from her kidnappers . Modok's threats to destroy the facility prove unyielding , as Iron Man had control of the fail-safe override the whole time . Iron Man explains that he had been testing Modok to see if he was serious , and decides to hear Modok out . Modok warns Iron Man that Emerald Cove is taken over and prepared to ambush James and Wanda . At Emerald Cove , Dreadknight recaptures Alana . Modok tells Iron Man that he wants them to save the captives because Alana is his wife . Alana escapes her captors once again before James and Wanda approach sea cove . Blacklash tests the molecular compression force fields on a tank , which shrinks and retains its original mass . The Water Strider rides up on the beach and James Rhodes armors up in his War Machine suit . Blacklash uses the molecular compression force field on the Water Strider and the ship shrinks and grows to normal size . The Mandarin's warriors notice Ulana has disconnected the force field and they try to recapture her . Scarlet Witch fights to protect the supermodel by stopping Whirlwind . Iron Man sends the Grey Gargoyle down a pit and Hawkeye deals with the rest . The Mandarin uses his rings to send Iron Man crashing onto the Water Strider and prepares to finish off Iron Man . However , Iron Man uses two panels from the boat to reflect the Mandarin's attack . The Mandarin and his forces retreat .


Our cheese is smoked to produce a delicate , subtle , smoked flavour which enhances the mild milkiness of the Wensleydale . The rind adopts the attractive colour of beech wood , whilst the body of the cheese retains the fresh brightness characterising a Traditional Wensleydale . All cheeses are vacuum packed and are available in the following sizes : 2kg Round ; 1kg Round ; 454g Truckle ; 25Og Mini Waxed Truckle . Smoked Blue Wensleydale Blue Wensleydale is one of England's finest Blue cheeses . It is an exquisite , close-textured , blue veined cheese which , when smoked , produces a visually stunning cheese , with a flavour characterised by the mellow creaminess of a Blue Wensleydale combined with the rich blend of hardwood smoke aromas . The cheese is available as 2 . 7kg Rings or 1.35 kg Half-rings . All are vacuum packed . Smoked Lancashire This cheese is cut from a Traditional " Fatty " Lancashire Truckle . The creamy , moist texture of the cheese is perfectly complemented by the gentle smoky flavour given by the smoking process . As with the Traditional Wensleydale , the colour is attractively pale . The cheese is available as 2kg Rings or 1kg Half-rings . All are vacuum packed . Smoked Mature Cheddar This is cut from a Classic Farmhouse Cheddar when it is 9-12 months old . The open texture and full " mature cheese " flavour present ideal qualities for smoking . The resulting cheese has a superb , rich mahogany colour with a smoky taste enhancement to an excellent Cheddar Cheese . The cheese is available in 7kg Rings or 1 . 75kg Quarters . All are vacuum packed .


Baby Alligators Young alligators are displayed year ' round and are released each fall and replaced by new hatchlings . The young are either carefully collected from a pod of hatchlings or hatched from collected eggs . A few of the babies are placed on display in the Nature Center . Some are also kept behind the scenes to be used for educational outreach events . The rest will be placed back with the mother alligator or if need be a different mother . Mother alligators will adopt and protect other babies . If it looks and sounds like a baby alligator she 'll accept it , no questions asked . The animals are kept in the nature center no longer than one year as they will become habituated to human contact if kept longer . At one year they are still young enough to revert back to their natural instincts that include a fear of humans . Alligator mating season takes place in the spring and nest building starts around the month of June . The mother alligator protects her nest from would-be predators such as raccoons and opossums . Any infestation of fire ants spells imminent disaster for the young . The eggs will be fine until hatching . Not only is the mother keeping an eye out for predators , she is also listening for chirping calls from the nest which is her signal the babies are ready to hatch . ( The babies will later use this chirping call as a distress call to the mother . ) The mother alligator will carefully dig through the nest helping the babies free themselves from the debris . With the use of an egg tooth , most of the babies are capable of hatching on their own . Others will receive help from Mom . Hatching takes place in a matter of hours , often under the cover of night . Nests are not always visible from park trails . They are usually well hidden away from human activity among the islands in Elm and 40-Acre Lakes . Alligators lay an average of 45 eggs . About 2 / 3 of those hatch , and approximately one alligator from each nest will grow to adulthood . Although the mother will keep a close eye on her young most will get eaten by bullfrogs , fish and wading birds , just to name a few . Imagine if all the eggs hatched successfully and grew to adults . We 'd be up to our knees in alligators ! But with nature's system , we have perfect balance . One could fairly say that alligators start their lives at the bottom of the chain and those lucky enough to survive to adulthood will take their rightful place at the top . Like all reptiles , baby alligators are hatched fully developed and ready to face the world . With a full set of teeth they are equipped to hunt for their own food which consists mainly of aquatic insects and minnows . As the alligator grows in size , so will its prey . However , alligators , no matter what size , are known to mostly hunt food that they can swallow whole though large animals may take deer , feral pigs or even smaller alligators ! All alligators start out fairly even in length at 7 to 9 inches long at hatching and grow about 1 foot per year for the first 5 years of their lives , reaching maturity at around 5 or 6 years of age . Alligators never stop growing . However , growth-rates slow dramatically in females which usually reach lengths of only about 6 or 7 feet . Males may grow to be as long as 10 or maybe even 12 feet . ( Despite popular rumors , the largest alligator ever recorded at the park was a little over 13 & 1 ⁄ 2 feet long and no large adult male alligators are relocated to the park from surrounding areas , this would upset the balance . ) Live animals are used by park staff as teaching tools . Whether in the Nature Center , at an outreach event or interpretive program , visitors have ample opportunities to touch these delicate creatures and learn about their importance in the health and survival of wetland areas in the Southeastern United States . It is important to note that it is illegal to posses any alligator of any size without proper permits . Although baby alligators enter this world cute and harmless , they quickly develop their natural predatory instincts and become dangerous " pets " . Always remember that wild animals do not make good pets . All wildlife within state parks is protected and may not be harmed , fed , or removed . Alligator viewing is best during the milder months of the year . Reptiles prefer days that are also comfortable for most humans . They avoid activity during the heat of the summer months and rainy days . They do not hibernate but instead are torpid during cold or hot spells . Mating activity can be seen or heard from April to late May . When hiking the trails in the wetland areas it is important to be familiar with the park's alligator etiquette rules which are found on park maps and posted throughout the park . Remember that nature rules the park and you are a guest in her home .