The Full Story Behind the Wine Bottle Mix-Up at Mosu
원본 (Korean)
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A wine pairing course costing well over 7 million won per person had its 2000 vintage wine swapped for 2005 vintage wine. Whether this was intentional or a mistake is something only the sommelier knows. Wine King's speculation seems most credible, but it's ultimately just speculation.
The incident happened here. I always take pictures of wine bottles for my personal SNS and record-keeping. I was doing the same at Mosu, photographing all the wines being served, and the sommelier was aware of this and always placed the bottle on the table after serving whenever I requested it. All previously served wines were placed on the table immediately, but this time, the sommelier surprisingly said "one moment" and went to the staff area, then came back to the table and placed the bottle. However, as you can see below, it was a 2000 vintage bottle. So the bottle on the left is 2000 vintage, but the wine in the glass is 2005 vintage. I didn't catch this right away at that point.
When the victim said they were taking a photo, they hastily switched the bottle and placed the 2000 vintage bottle, letting them take a picture. The bottle on the table is 2000 vintage wine, but the liquid poured in the glass is 2005 vintage wine—a bizarre situation. The victim didn't notice up to this point.
At first, my group and I all didn't know. But after tasting the wine's aroma and flavor and checking the wine pairing list, I realized that 2000 vintage should have been served. Just to be safe in case my group and I misheard or misremembered, I checked the photo I took during service (attached in #1 above) and confirmed it was indeed 2005 vintage at the time of service. So I politely asked the sommelier to confirm, and only then did they admit it, saying things like "The 2000 vintage bottle came in as a bottle order. The bottle was downstairs on the first floor"... and then said, "Then I'll let you taste the 2000 vintage in a Bordeaux glass too"... But the wine we were originally supposed to receive was 2000 vintage anyway..... Not wanting to ruin the nice dining atmosphere, I said okay for now and received service as follows. (The left is 2000 vintage, the right is 2005 vintage. You can see the color is different right away. Not to mention the aroma.)
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12 comments
The person downstairs ordered a whole bottle, so it has nothing to do with my wine. Even if the sommelier confused the 2005 with the 2000, it doesn't affect the downstairs customer. The only way the bottle switch explanation makes sense is if the 2000 was out of stock and they just grabbed something else—but then why'd the excuse come out at all? If the 2000 and 2005 mix-up is real, there's no connection between my wine and what went downstairs. The fact that they're trying to link them is sus. No matter how I think about it, if the downstairs person ordered a bottle situation, my wine and theirs shouldn't be connected at all.
The real victim here is the customer downstairs who got screwed with the 2000 when they ordered the 2005.
Bruh, what do you know about wine? You can't even tell the difference in taste and just poured whatever lmao
Why'd they build a dam when they could've just used a hoe to plug it...
I wish Anseongjae would just put out a clear statement. So we don't get all these baseless theories.
Fine dining feels like a scam honestly. Either jack up the price 10x and do it perfectly, or drop the quality to match the current price. Customers complain about the high price, the restaurant gets roasted for being expensive with bad margins—if neither side's happy, isn't something structurally broken?
I looked this up out of curiosity and the 2000 and 2005 don't have huge differences in rating or score, but the character's supposedly different. If they ordered by bottle, it's literally a different menu item ("I came to drink the 2000"), but if it was a pairing, food's the main event and wine's just supporting (synergy between food and wine), so it wouldn't be this big a deal supposedly. But a wine expert pointed out that the sommelier took someone else's Léoville Barton bottle that the downstairs customer ordered and had them take a pic and taste it lol
The way Mosu handled this says everything about their customer service tbh, props to them for being cool about it
Personally feels like the sommelier's the one holding the power in this situation, not An.
I'm a third party and this is pissing me off..
WAIT this actually happened?? 😭 I thought this was just a funny rumor, that's absolutely wild
Like, how hard is it to say "We don't have the 2000 vintage available right now so we'll provide the 2005 instead. We apologize for the shortfall and offer you xxx as compensation [discount on meal or wine upgrade for next course or whatever's reasonable]." Is it that impossible? Is admitting a mistake at a fine dining place that career-ending?
These food-selling bastards are so full of themselves they can't even apologize right, acting like complete idiots lmao
Honestly this is the kind of chaos I live for, imagine being the server who had to explain this mix-up lol
ngl this sounds like it could happen at literally any restaurant, wine bottles all look the same in dim lighting 💀
So basically someone got a €500 bottle when they ordered the house wine??? Living someone's dream right there