The beauty of oversized format bottles is that they are fun and festive in their own right, the kind of thing you are only opening for company or celebrations, and the wine itself hardly matters, with the exception of some mass-produced warehouse store or budget wines that are occasionally sold in magnums.
But as the Omidyars drove their Volkswagen Cabriolet back to their home, furnished with budget brands from a Target store, they felt only more confused--like not a few of the accidental billionaires in the Valley.