Considering they were chugging the wine straight from the bottle, I really don't think their appreciation for fine wine is all you might imagine it to be.

What might that be?

After almost getting killed and knowing I have another 50-some bottles, I think I'd do the same thing.

It's difficult for me to remember the exact details of Adrianna's murder, but is it possible that Silvio didn't kill her? Perhaps they're setting that up. I can't remember if they actually showed the killing or not. Refresh my memory, guys.

they showed him throw her out of the car point the gun at her head and went off screen just as they pulled the trigger

It was reported on AICN that:

Okay, scratch that idea then. I was just trying to figure out why the sudden interest in Adrianna.

Yeah, unless she's in Sylvio's basement, i'd say she's no longer with us.

Chris would, Tony wouldn't.

I thought the whole point of Tony's arc this week was that he's bored. A Boss would never be directly involved in ANY heist of that nature, with the possiblity of a shootout. Bosses sit in social clubs, drink coffee, break balls, and go out to dinner, fuck goomars, and go home. Everyone else does the heists and then pay their tributes to the Boss. Tony was looking for some excitement.

They pulled over behind a bar somewhere in the middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania. I don't think those types of places are serving $5,000 bottles of vino. Or, as someone said, stocking 3-4 million dollars worth of wine in the back. Tony and Chris weren't looking for Rolexes, they saw an opportunity for an easy score and took it.

The whole convo with Chris in the basement was about his boredom too. They have plenty to talk about with Chris having a baby and buying a house but we all know Tony is a self-centered prick so a discussion about that stuff was out of the question. The wine was fun for Tony so that's what he wanted to talk about.

so what exactly did paulie do with the gold hat ??

Nothing. The church wouldn't let him use it b/c he refused to up his donation.

It wasn't a bar in the middle of nowhere -- it was a vinyard.

On another subject, here's my completely random, off-the-wall, goofed up guess for the week: Christopher just gave himself HIV by sharing a needle. I base this on the way the camera focused on the physical act of shooting up and the blood being drawn into the needle.

Of course, there were about six times in this episode when I was sure Christopher was going to die, so it's probably just my over-eager immagination, which seems to have a death wish for Mr. Moltisanti this week!

they've shown the physical act of injection in the past, but I agree that Christopher Moltisanti is not long for the series - he might overdose, or get killed while "nodding."

I figured this was his swan song episode as well. I kept waiting for someone at the festival to come around a corner and find him dead in an alley.

I missed that part because...well, I have an irrational fear of needles thanks to a traumatizing event as a child. I thought he was just going to "toot"? Stupid Chris.

I thought it was just a rip-off of Tarantino from Pulp Fiction.

Anywhere to find the trailer for the next ep?

To me, it was pretty clear that he sold it for $300. Chris isn't going to be selling it at true market value. Even if, as others mentioned, $5K per bottle isn't unrealistic, the retail price would have had to been much more than $5K per bottle for Christopher to get that much for it.

In my opinion, it was a done just to show Christopher's inability to appreciate the true value the item. Perhaps emphasizing his "unrefined" nature. To him, $300 was worth more than the cases of expensive wine.

I figured he got rid of it to ease the temptation of drinking it.

There is no way they were serving $5,000 bottles of wine for Sunday dinner. They are hoods, not idiots.

More likely Chris simply meant $300, as I took it he would have no idea what the wine should actually sell for. At a stretch, he could have meant $300/case. Regardless, $300K is a ludicrous figure. Even if he meant $30K (as "5" normally means $500, and "5 large" is $5,000) that would be a far too high $500/bottle. Individual bottles sell for under $200, and a sale to a "non-standard" dealer would certainly be much lower.