Posted on 10/23/2020 11:11:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A young couple who once dined at the Big Apple’s iconic Balthazar couldn’t bottle up their emotions after ordering an $18 Pinot Noir — but being served a $2,000 Mouton Rothschild instead by accident, the eatery’s owner recounted this week.
...the restaurant’s night manager said the host of the business meeting actually praised the purity of the cheapest wine on the list, while the lucky couple “jokingly pretended to be drinking an expensive wine,”
“The young couple were ecstatic by the restaurant’s mistake, and told me it was like the bank making an error in their favor,” said the red-faced owner, who admitted the embarrassing mix-up.
“The trouble was, it was me who was down $2,000, not the bank,”
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My wife and I once went to a restaurant that mixed up the wine order but put the expensive one on the bill. I refused to pay and after some argument paid the price of the cheaper wine instead.
The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste
by Dorothy L. Sayers, in the collection Lord Peter Views The Body...
My first thought was coughing up a hundred bucks for the bottle...
I'm sure he was out considerably less than that unless he sells his liquor at cost.
Trust me a bottle of Rothschild is highly distinguishable from a Mondavi reserve.
It sure did...LOL
There is a Whidbey Island in Puget Sound just north of Seattle....
Yes, Merlot! and I also love Oak Leaf Sauvignon Blanc, but I think it could be discontinued. It sells for $2.50/bottle and all other Oak Leaf versions are $2.96.
Yup. :*)
If memory serves, the vineyard is on the Island or beside the island access. Never been there ... great Ruby Port they have.
I’ve only sailed by it when my Navy ship left Bremerton headed for Newport RI...
My FIL was was a Restranteur in San Francisco. One day he showed up with a bottle of Domaine Perignon which normally was $ 125-150 a bottle at the time. He had KFC with him at the time. We had lunch with Domaine Perignon and KFC. Nothing special regarding the taste. It was good but far from over $100 a bottle. This was in the 80’s.
Oak Harbor, on Widbey Island is my home town. My dad retired fron the Navy in 1976.
Is the vineyard on the Island? Perfect soil and weather fluctuations for getting great sweet darl Port.
As you move up the Island, the amount of annual rainfall decreases from 54” in the south end to 19” in the north end. 4th
I saw a chef of a local restaurant buying cases of Aldi’s $2.99 Winking Owl wine. He smiled at me when I said ‘you must be running a special on the house wine tonight’.
I like the Walmart Oak Leaf Sweet Red. Works will in spaghetti sauce also.
I'm no wine snob...Barefoot Pinots are more my style...but even I never by screw top bottles.
Actually my winery snob buddies say that some very good wines are now bottled with screw tops.
I got one at the time of release and it was around $130. The art label commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall. I kept it until President Reagan’s funeral. I drank it while watching it on tv. It was very good. No regrets for drinking it then and not keeping it til now with it’s higher value. I still have the empty bottle in my kitchen.
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