{"id":319789,"date":"2021-08-09T23:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/champagne-crisis-bubbles-up-in-hamptons\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T23:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:10:20","slug":"champagne-crisis-bubbles-up-in-hamptons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/champagne-crisis-bubbles-up-in-hamptons\/","title":{"rendered":"#Champagne crisis bubbles up in Hamptons"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Champagne crisis bubbles up in Hamptons<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Blu Mar and 75 Maine owner Zach Erdem says one of his customers is prepared to fly cases of champagne from France to the Hamptons.<\/figcaption>
Patrick McMullan via Getty Image<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Oh, mon dieu<\/em>!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a champagne crisis in the Hamptons that\u2019s forcing East End restaurateurs to fly in their own bubbly \u2014 or drink (gasp!) alternatives like cava.<\/p>\n

The shortage is so bad that one of Zach Erdem\u2019s billionaire customers plans to fly 15 cases of premium champagne on his private plane from France for his wife\u2019s annual Hamptons birthday party.<\/p>\n

Erdem, of 75 Main and Blu Mar<\/a>, will then buy any leftovers to serve at the \u201cunofficial after party\u201d for Denise Rich\u2019s 25th annual \u201cAngel\u2019s Ball,\u201d which will be held in the Hamptons for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The unofficial after-party will be held at Erdem\u2019s Buddha Lounge at Blue Mar.\u201c<\/p>\n

The Champagne plane won\u2019t let us down,\u201d Erdem said. \u201cNot having champagne in the Hamptons is like Maine not having lobsters.\u201dIt\u2019s not just the partygoers who are \u201csuffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have one Russian billionaire who comes to the Hamptons for one week every summer, after stops in Ibiza, St Tropez and Mykanos,\u201d Erdem said. \u201cHe always drinks Crystal at breakfast. I had to tell him to bring his own or I\u2019ll be serving him a $10 bottle of Prosecco instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake Leonard, vice president of Stew Leonard\u2019s Wines & Spirits of Farmingdale in Long Island and a certified sommelier, said they saw the shortages coming and bought 500 cases of champagne in June. It\u2019s been paying off big time.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re now delivering to the Hamptons for the first time, and the No. 1 item is champagne,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are trying to buy up whatever we can get our hands on, as prices will shoot up in September. In the last year, champagne houses sold more than in the last eight years combined. It\u2019s supply and demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now that the restaurant industry is recovering from pandemic shutdowns, the champagne shortage is patrons\u2019 No. 1 gripe, says Southampton Social<\/a> Club owner Ian Duke.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe may have to start rationing soon,\u201d Leonard joked. \u201cYou can\u2019t just put bubbles in a bottle. It takes time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things are so bad that at the Capri Hotel\u2019s Naia Restaurant, Michael Pitsinos\u2019 weekend pool parties are offering cava, or Spanish sparkling wine, as a champagne substitute.\u201c<\/p>\n

The Hamptons isn\u2019t going French this summer at Naia due to the champagne shortage, so we\u2019re making an Ibiza-theme<\/a>d pool party with tapas poolside. The customers are loving the fiesta,\u201d Pitsinos said.<\/p>\n

Of course, \u201cthere\u2019s a shortage of everything\u201d and not just champagne, explained Lee Schrager, senior vice president of communications for the Southern Glazer\u2019s Wine & Spirit of America, and founder of the New York City Wine and Food Festival.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the pandemic, the wine and spirits industry lost its hotel and restaurant accounts. When lockdown ended, the industry bounced back better and faster than expected,\u201d he said.Still, it\u2019s the champagne that wealthy Hamptonites are mourning, including Ian Duke\u2019s Southampton Social Club.\u201cThe most popular nightclub items \u2014 \u00a0the high-end champagnes from Moet Chandon or Dom Perignon \u2014 \u00a0can\u2019t be found,\u201d Duke said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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The preference for champagne, shown here, is so strong that one restaurateur is justifying serving cava \u2014 a Spanish sparkling wine \u2014 as a substitute by making it part of an Ibiza theme.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThey are out of stock, they come back, and then they disappear again,\u201d said Duke, who explained that other nightclub staples, like a $900 Grey Goose magnum and a $1,942 magnum of Don Julio 1942, have also been in short supply.<\/p>\n

Duke blames the crisis on a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of COVID-19 driving more people to the beach<\/a> amid crippling supply chain woes and labor shortages that are hurting businesses everywhere. \u00a0\u201cWe have more people out here than ever and we can\u2019t get the food or liquor or staff to provide for all of them,\u201d Duke said.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all stems from COVID, which caused everyone to come out and buy houses, so no one who works here can afford to live here. Then there\u2019s the entitlement factor and the fact that workers don\u2019t want to work. They just want to stay home, and collect unemployment money,\u201d Duke said. \u201cProduction then slowed when the restaurants and nightclubs shut down \u2014 and that came back to bite them in the rear.\u201d<\/p>\n

To handle the shortages, Duke says they promote what they have and \u201cget by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough everyone is angry, upset and frustrated, they are still going out. This is just another way it has become more difficult for us to do our jobs, and we\u2019ve had a rough go for 18 months. We could use a break somewhere along the line,\u201d Duke said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Champagne crisis bubbles up in Hamptons” Blu Mar and 75 Maine owner Zach Erdem says one of his customers is prepared to fly cases of champagne from France to the Hamptons.Patrick McMullan via Getty Image Oh, mon dieu! There\u2019s a champagne crisis in the Hamptons that\u2019s forcing East End restaurateurs to fly in their own…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/champagne-034.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113761,79174,22512,71970,73037],"class_list":["post-319789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-9-21","tag-champagne","tag-restaurants","tag-side-dish","tag-the-hamptons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}