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  • Couple at NYC eatery served $2,000 Bordeaux in error after ordering cheap wine

    10/23/2020 11:11:24 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 126 replies
    NY Post ^ | 23 Oct 2020 | Yaron Steinbuch
    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...