Have $40k to spend on a bottle of wine?

Alcohol can run up a dinner tab fast but this is known as taking it to the monumental extreme.

I’m told six bottles of wine accounted for $240,000 of the $300,000 total last month at Prime Steakhouse at Bellagio.

Six bottles of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti 2006 from France’s Burgundy region were purchased at $40,000 per bottle.

Wine-searcher.com crowned it as “the world’s most-wanted wine” earlier this month.

Picking up the tab was Shane Smith, the tattooed maverick chief executive officer of Vice Media.

About 20 guests were with Smith. They also drank Screaming Eagle wine, Cristal champagne and a couple other bottles, a source said.

Romanee-Conti costs about $13,000 retail. The gratuity, I’m told, was “appropriate.” Fifteen percent would pencil out to a tip of $45,000.

The Canadian-born Smith apparently grew up channeling gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

According to the Financial Times, Smith’s father gave him a signed first-edition copy of Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”

Smith reportedly embraced hedonism and the punk scene as a teenager.

Smith reportedly won about $1 million at blackjack during the Consumer Electronics Show last month.

He co-founded Vice magazine as a print monthly in 1994 with two friends and took it global over the next decade.

Now based in Brooklyn, Vice has operations in 30-plus countries as a youth-centric media company based on original video for the Web.

Vice specializes in edgy content and partners with HBO, among others. Vice organized a trip to North Korea two years ago with NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters.

A game with the North Korean national team was arranged, with Kim Jong-un, the country’s ruler in attendance.

THE SCENE AND HEARD

The first mayoral debate will be held Monday on KDWN-AM, 720 with talk show host Alan Stock hosting Mayor Carolyn Goodman and main challenger Stavros Anthony from 6:30-8 a.m. Stock will be moderating and taking calls (702-257-5396). The primary election is April 7. If needed, the general election is June 2. …

The Race and Sports Book at Wynn Las Vegas is holding a viewing party today for the 87th Academy Awards. Doors open to the public at 3 p.m.

SIGHTINGS

Mirage headliner Terry Fator made a surprise appearance with the Lon Bronson All-Star Band on Friday at Sunset Station’s Club Madrid. Fator performed with two of his puppets, Julius and Duggie Scott Walker and covered Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.” … Terrance “Pot Roast” Knighton, a free agent defensive tackle now after two seasons with the Denver Broncos, partying with friends and family at Tao nightclub (Venetian) on Friday. … Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, joining the “Raiding the Rock Vault” cast at the Tropicana on Friday. He sang Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” and stayed for the birthday celebration for Doug Aldrich, a 12-year member of Whitesnake. … At the opening of “Menopause The Musical” in its new home at Harrah’s on Friday: Jeff Civillico, Frederic Da Silva (“Paranormal” at Bally’s), Ryan Stuart and Sami Eskelin (Chippendales, Rio), Tatiana Mac, Sabrina Sia and Chelsea Reid (“50 Shades — The Parody,” (Bally’s); Ben Hale, Rob Lyons and Martin Kaye (“Millionaire Dollar Quartet,” Harrah’s), cast members of “Sexxy” (Westgate), husband-wife entertainers Clint Holmes and Kelly Clinton, director and producer Bill Fayne, BMX star Ricardo Laguna, Miss Nevada U.S. 2014 Lisa Song Sutton and singer Pia Zadora. … Corey Harrison of the “Pawn Stars” and his girlfriend Roxanne Gonzales, kissing on the “Kisscam” during the Los Angeles Clippers game on Thursday. … Nicolas Cage, filming “The Trust” at the Riviera on Thursday. Cage and the crew celebrated the filming of their 10,000th roll with a champagne toast. … Golden Nugget headliner Gordie Brown, dining at Eiffel Tower Restaurant (Paris). At another table: WBA super lightweight champion Jessie Vargas. … At Hash House A Go Go on Sahara on Thursday: Rick Harrison of the “Pawn Stars,” District Attorney Steve Wolfson and Sheriff Joe Lombardo, supporting the nonprofit Hope for Prisoners at a Pancake Week fundraiser which featured restaurant staffers assisted by police officers while serving customers. … Grammy-nominated producer/DJ Morgan Page, hanging with Zappos’ Tony Hsieh and Tesla’s Elon and Kimbal Musk on Friday at Light nightclub at Mandalay Bay. Page was kicking off his residency at Light.

THE PUNCH LINE

“Sunday night on ABC is the 87th annual Academy Awards. It is by far the most glamorous parking nightmare of the year here in Hollywood.” — Jimmy Kimmel

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