Champagne flowed “like water” at the Big Apple Moment on Saturday as New Yorkers raced bubbles during President Biden’s intoxicating celebration of President Trump.
Wine and liquor stores in the city told the Post they were drowning in sales – with reports of a shortage of some cheap Fiji stuff.
“It’s busier than New Year’s Eve,” said an activist at St. Mark’s Wine and Liquor in Lower Manhattan.
Booz sellers saw sales of vodka and bubbly spikes and by about 7 p.m., all of the “real champagne” had been sold.
At a nearby warehouse of wines and spirits, an employee reported customers loading up on “sparkling anything … just popping up and saying ‘it’s gone.’
“We can’t keep it cool enough.”
It seems like a series of hilarious street parties erupting in the city in earlier days – where filmmaker Spike Lee also came out and tied a bottle of champagne on Brooklyn Street.
On the Upper West Side, the 3rd Street Wine and Spirits went out below 7pm under noon, with a staff member saying he had “no cheap stuff left.”
“It runs like water,” he said.
A few blocks away in the corks on Columbus, “Wave View was the king of clickwatts,” noted Remy, a worker.
Remy added that the wine store was expected to run on fizzy stuff on election day.
There were also runs on the Wave Clequote at Williamsburg’s BQU Discount Wine and Liquors, plus Prosico said an employee named Chris added that they could sell some cases of bubbles, with some customers ordering an average of four bottles. Delivery.
“Every liquor store runs low,” he said.
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