A photograph of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich pointing to his lunch bill (he had five companions) of $US47,221.09 rings true. At the bottom end of the scale of the items on the bill is $12 for bottled water, $15 a cup for various coffees, food clicking in seriously with three truffle tagliolini ($565) and two truffle carpaccios ($200), before moving to the main part of the lunch turning around three bottles of La Tache, two bottles of Petrus and two bottles of Cristal Rose. Unfortunately we aren’t told the vintage of the La Tache or the Petrus, but the former came in at a nice round $15,000, the two Petrus $10,000 and (bad value here) the two bottles of Cristal Rose likewise costing $10,000. It’s good to see discerning diners going for quality rather than quantity, with a modest intake of seven bottles between the six of them.