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- A mix-up led two tables to order each other’s wine at Balthazar in New York City.
- Four Wall Street entrepreneurs received an $ 18 bottle, while a young couple received a bottle that actually cost $ 2,000.
- The owner said the businessmen didn’t notice the difference and even praised the cheaper wine.
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A mix-up at New York City’s Balthazar restaurant led a young couple to get the deal of a lifetime, as they accidentally got served a $ 2,000 (R32,400) bottle of 1989 Mouton Rothschild after ordering a Pinot from $ 18 (R300), Decanter reported.
A waiter inadvertently poured both wines into identical decanters, restaurant owner Keith McNally explained on Instagram. The $ 2,000 bottle was the most expensive on the menu, ordered by a table of four businessmen. Not only did the Wall Street table not notice a difference, according to McNally, one of them “tasted the cheap wine before bursting into ecstasy at its ‘purity.’ Meanwhile, the couple who ordered the $ 18 bottle allegedly joked about being “wine snobs,” unknowingly drinking the much more expensive bottle.
McNally wrote that he realized the mistake and was faced with a dilemma about telling diners what had happened. The couple were allowed to finish the $ 2,000 bottle, because removing it would have been “unthinkable” at the time, and they were delighted to learn of the mistake. They told McNally it was as if the bank had made a mistake in their favor.
“The problem was, I was the one who lost $ 2,000, not the bank,” McNally wrote.
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