Anyone for dinner??

Grant Dodd · Post by **Grant Dodd** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:09 am

I note with interest that on another board a post notes that a dinner is being advertised in NY for a 12 course meal to go with 40 great Burgundies. The wines are quite special,to be fair,all the best houses and many great vintages(Montrachet,La Tache,DRC and many Leroy wines + plenty more) and the dinner is scheduled to go over 7 hours.

The price---------- $4950 US per head !!!

Now thats a serious ask,I thought,maybe even a typo. But no,thats the number and there are 100 tickets for sale.

Tough sell,I think to my self.

Sold out in two hours. Amazing. Thats half a million bucks($US) for one dinner. Or one trillion Australian dollars if you want a different perspective.

I tell you one thing,there'd be no spitting if I was going!!

Cheers

DaveB · Post by **DaveB** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:21 pm

That's a lot of of money :shock:

Not a bad line up though, 40 wines all up, Bolly VVF, lot's of DRC, Leroy, Lafon's, etc.

You can just imagine the cork-dorks waffling on around the dinner table though

Dave

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:58 pm

Seriously though...can you really enjoy 40 diff wines of this calibre over one night?

I would prefer 4-8 bottles of really good stuff, no infact for that much I could fly to burgundy and have a great bottle :-)

Grant Dodd · Post by **Grant Dodd** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:06 pm

I assume thats 40 glasses of wine for each person too. Thats an awfull lot of grog to down in one sitting. No way you'd be able to be discerning about quality and vintage after about 15,of course,unless you spit,and who's going to do that!!

Sounds like something I'd like to do though if I had stupid amounts of money,what the heck,you only live once!

Cheers

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:39 pm

American always like something bold and big.. this is another example

Nelly · Post by **Nelly** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:44 pm

Rob wrote:American always like something bold and big.. this is another example

I always think $$ amounts like this are for show - i.e. people wanting to say they went to x dinner "aren't I posh". I do not believe you can appreciate that many brilliant wines in one sitting - no matter how many hours the dinner is.