Joe Lentini doesn’t know a thing about wine. The New Jersey man is not a drinker and only enjoys maybe one glass of wine a month.

But during a recent business dinner at the Bobby Flay Steakhouse at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, he agreed to share a bottle with two colleagues.

“I asked the waitress if she could recommend something decent because I don’t have experience with wine,” Lentini told NJ.com. “She pointed to a bottle on the menu. I didn’t have my glasses. I asked how much and she said, ‘Thirty-seven fifty.’”

The bottle arrived. Lentini sampled and approved it.

“It was okay. It was good,” Lentini told NJ.com. “It wasn’t great. It wasn’t terrible. It was fine.”

When the bill arrived Lentini realized that he’d just consumed a bottle that was better than fine.

The bottle of Screaming Eagle, Oakville 2011, had cost $3,750.

Lentini assumed it was $37.50.

Lentini and his fellow diners shared the mistake with the host and maitre d’ and after a lot of back and forth and arguing the restaurant agreed to bring the price down to $2,200.

The group of diners didn’t want to pay that amount and really couldn’t afford to spend that much on wine but the restaurant wasn’t going to let them leave until they paid.

After taking a look at video footage without audio of the incident, the restaurant is standing by its waitstaff and told NJ.com that the proper steps were followed.

“As the leading culinary destination in this region, we consistently serve as many, if not more high-end wine and spirits without incident,” Borgata executive vice president Joseph Lupo told NJ.com. “In this isolated case, both the server and sommelier verified the bottle requested with the patron.”

In actuality, the Screaming Eagle is the second most expensive comparable bottle on the menu, according to NJ.com, and it seems like a sommelier would know to not suggest this bottle to a man who expressed he’s ignorant about wine.

“The person serving the wine has the obligation to make the price of the wine immediately clear,” John Foy, a wine consultant and wine columnist for The Star-Ledger, told NJ.com. “That’s because $3,750 is a big number for anybody, except for perhaps hedge fund managers.”