Big Bottles

Whale Week continues with this Big Bottle tale from Rialto beverage director Young Won: "There was a guest that noticed a political figure in the dining room, and he wanted to buy them a bottle of wine. And he didn't want his name to be disclosed. It was a bottle of Gaja Conteisa, which was $445. That was the grandest gesture that I've experienced here - the person drinking it knew that it was a good bottle, but didn't really realize how good of a bottle it was." [WW]