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Man orders $3750 bottle of wine, thinking it cost $37.50

What a bit of rotten luck.

A MAN HAS BEEN left thousands of dollars out of pocket after accidentally ordering a $3750 bottle of wine, thinking it cost $37.50

Joe Lentini, who says he doesn’t “know much about wine at all”, was asked to pick the wine while at dinner with 10 friends at a restaurant in Atlantic City.

According to NJ.com, he asked the waitress to recommend a bottle, which she said costed “Thirty-seven fifty.”

The wine was ordered and enjoyed, but when the bill came, the diners got a nasty shock.

The total was $4700 – the wine, a Screaming Eagle, Oakville 2011, cost $3750. Not thirty-seven fifty. Three thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

The mistake was explained to management, but Lentini was told the “best price” the restaurant could give him was $2200. To be able to leave the restaurant, he and two other diners agreed to split the bill.

A spokesman for the restaurant said that they had investigated the incident and found there was “no misunderstanding” regarding the wine selection:

We simply will not allow the threat of a negative story that includes so many unaccounted and questionable statements to disparage our integrity and standards, which [the restaurant] takes great pride in practising every day.

The worst part? The wine was only “okay”.

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