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9,000

Minimum cost (in U.S. dollars) of a “bubble bath” at the Il Salviatino hotel in Florence, Italy. Guests have a choice of bathing in Prosecco, Asti Spumante or Champagne. In addition, bathers are served glasses of whatever’s in the tub, providing a more or less “whole body” experience. The ultimate cost of the bubble bath is dependent on the type of bubbly selected.

2021 Napa Valley Vintage Report

“On more than one occasion in recent years, I’ve opened a wine list in a trendy restaurant and been a bit stumped. A lot of choices, but on the entire list, I may recognize about half the wines. I cannot imagine how a customer with less knowledge about wine than I, if such a person exists, feels reading an obscure wine list like that. Except intimidated. Which is not normally why a human goes to a restaurant. That’s why you go to church.”

—Ron Washam, The HoseMaster of Wine

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