How much do you spend on a bottle of wine?

Hi,

once in a while there are these nights where I can really celebrate listening to music.

Kid and wife already asleep, descend to the cellar, snatch a good bottle of (preferably red) wine, back upstairs, open the bottle, pour the wine into the glass, pick a gorgeous vinyl record, feed the Linn and the Naims, shut down the light, sit down, enjoy!

Think music and wine together is a way of perfect relaxation. This brings me closer to my question:

As wine is important for me as a drink (not only when listening to music) I spend a maybe more money than the "mainstream guy" for purchasing. Would say the average price I pay for a bottle is somewhere between 13-17$. However, crazy as I am, on occasion I spent 50$ or even more (most expensive so far was a Cheval Blanc 1994 and a Monte Bello Ridge 1996 both with nearly 100$ - that's my upmost personal limit).

I do drink wine in the consumer class (5-10$) or sometimes even cheaper. However, most of these wines taste flat, uninspired, or even bad compared to the more expensive ones.

The whole wine thing reminds my on hifi systems where normally more money spend means better sound (and as in hifi you watch out for the real value bargains).

So after all these words my simple question: would you spend more then 15$ (~10 Sterling?) for a bottle of wine or do you consider this as crazy (what maybe most people do)?

Miow,

the fat cat