He should have checked online...
Posted on 05/30/2023 8:55:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jeff Bezos splashed out some major dough on wine to toast his engagement to Lauren Sanchez last week.
But a popular New York City wine seller said the billionaire Amazon founder, 59, got squeezed on the reported $4,285 tab for the bottle of French red.
“Wine fact of the day: Bezos knows less than you and got mega ripped off in France,” wrote Parcelle Wine on its Instagram account. The post was referring to the bottle of Dugat-Py Grand Cru from Domaine Bernard, which the couple enjoyed at La Petit Maison in Cannes, France.
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Hey Gatsby-Who cares?
Apparently you do?
Yeah. That’s like me spending $5.00 on a dollar cup of coffee. We’ll both recover financially.
Uh huh I’m sure bezos and his billions are really sweating a few thousand bucks.
Auctions are pretty random, and can be crazy cheap or over priced. But a quick search for this rare (10 cases a year) wine shows it typically sells for $2500+, depending on vintage. And since he was buying for a large event, he had to secure a relatively large quantity.
It’s a $4,000 bottle of wine, because he can afford it.
Bottles of wine typically sell for 3-10 times retail, at a restaurant
Big effin deal
I spent $600 on a Cabernet last month that cost $130 at the store
It was great...
Restaurant markups on wine and other beverages are generally high to outrageus. That’s where they make money, not on the food.
I’m sure he’s so worried about it having more crap and money than a dozen people could spend in a lifetime
Stop wasting my time
What do they run? About $10.00 per bottle?
Lauren Sanchez finds out her job just got a lot easier and quicker.
Thunderbird. Now that is some fine wine!
Nothing new here, Restaurants routinely mark up bottled wine 10 or 20 times their cost, or more... and the more “upscale” the restaurant, the more they gouge.
Hell some high end restaurants charge you $150 corking fee, just to open a bottle of wine you brought yourself.
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