February 26, 2002
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Pay for No Wine Time After Time
There's a story going around the street today that five bond traders went out to dinner to celebrate a deal and managed to run up a tab in excess of $60,000. They tried to expense it and some of them were apparently axed.
How do you work up a $60,000 tab? Easy - wine. apparently the wines they ordered ranged from over $1,000/bottle to up to $14,000. The meal was on the house (generous, eh?).
If you have the dough, I understand wanting to try a bottle of wine from the 1940s, although I bet these guys threw back some kamikazes first. The real crime, though, is that after a bottle or two of the good stuff, why didn't they break out the Fetzer? At that point you can tell the difference?
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at February 26, 2002 9:17 PM | Technorati inbound links