LeBron Wows Dinner Guests By Serving Ultra Rare 1962 Sprite Vintage

During a private dinner party at the James estate last weekend, soft drink connoisseur LeBron James wowed his guests with a rare 1962 Sprite vintage. Bottled at the original Coca-Cola plant, the ’62 is well known in the soda community for its sweetness, light-bodied texture, and tart finish with tingling notes of both lemon and lime.

Guest Chris Paul reported feeling giddy with excitement when LeBron pulled a dusty, green bottle from his pop cellar, saying that the rarest vintage he’d sampled up to that point, a 2001 Mountain Dew Code Red, paled in comparison to the crisp, refreshing taste of the $338,000 pop LeBron acquired at a soda collector’s estate sale.

LeBron demonstrated how to properly taste fine soda by first observing the Sprite’s color and opacity, then swirling it around the cup to release the bouquet of sugar and carbonation, and smelling it to taste its exquisite artificial sugar with both nose and mouth. Paul added, “He taught us that the lemonlimes in Sprite can only be found in a single uninhabited Pacific island surrounded by carbonated waters.”

Enamoring his guests with knowledge of all things pop, LeBron expounded on how Sprite Zero pairs well with Tuesday tacos while Diet Sprites complements fattier foods such as Blaze Pizza.

LeBron’s soda tasting parties are legendary in NBA circles and rumor has it he may create his own brand of soda from fruits grown on his private lemonlime yard in Los Angeles. When asked about it, James only promised he would “obey his thirst.”