That bottle of wine is not $37.50; it's <i >$3,750?!</i>

There's a lot of finger-pointing and he-said/she-said, but the upshot is that a guy bought a bottle of wine at Bobby Flay Steak in the Borgata in Atlantic City for $2,200.

Which was a bargain, since the wine's price was listed at $3,750.

But the guy insists that the waitress had quoted him "thirty-seven fifty" in the first place.

In his mind, that meant "$37.50."

NJ.com relates the story about Joe Lentini of Hazlet, N.J., who a week ago was among a party of 10 when the host of the dinner told him to choose a bottle.

Lentini said she asked the waitress for a recommendation. She pointed to the 2011 Screaming Eagle. Since he did not have his glasses on, he asked how much. "She said, 'Thirty-seven fifty,' " he told NJ.com.

Gasps accompanied the bill. When Lentini complained, the restaurant offered to drop the price to $2,200. Eventually, Lentini and two other diners agreed to share the bill.

The Borgata stands by its staff and the way this was handled.

And about that Screaming Eagle...

If the ultimate selling price of the bottle was $2,200 at Bobby Flay Steak, the guys probably got an extraordinary deal.

I ran the scenario by Scot "Zippy" Ziskind, who, as arguably the region's leading wine-refrigeration and wine-storage expert, is around these rare bottles every day.

That Screaming Eagle's average Internet retail is $1,800, he said. Given that restaurants easily double the price of wine, the $3,750 retail would not be out of line in New Jersey.

If that bottle were sold in Pennsylvania, it could fetch $5,000, Ziskind estimated.

If you can obtain it: The LCB's database shows only the 2003 Screaming Eagle for $2,269.