A bottle of champagne consumed by congressmen in Tokyo cost 2,000 euros.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
No source addresses the claimed 2,000-euro bottle of champagne at the Tokyo hotel, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The post itself is the claimant's own account, not evidence, and the claim's wording roughly tracks it (Hotel Acura in Tokyo, a bottle said to cost 2,000 euros, with congressmen present).
What was said
… Um, Arena, Secretary of Organization, was at the Hotel Acura in Tokyo, five-star property, whole bunch of congressmen there with him. Um, they showed him with a bottle of, cam champagne that was 2,000 euros. It was a place called, uh, Conce del Sogno, later on a place only accessible by sea. And yet Seinbaum, who now is bizarrely very wealthy, I don't know where the money came from, she demands austerity. It will be imposed on the country through the IMF. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The sources are mostly unrelated: fact-checks on other politicians, a Japanese ministerial apology, travel-disclosure filings, and general wine and rooftop-bar price guides. None mentions the Hotel Acura, the Morena Party officials named in the post, or this specific bottle.[1][2][3][4][9]
Context. Generic Champagne price data (for example, a Bollinger bottle retailing in Japan at roughly ¥11,800–¥14,500, and Japanese rooftop bars listing bottles at ¥18,000–¥100,000+) shows typical market prices. These are not records of this bottle, so they neither support nor contradict a 2,000-euro price.[5][6][7][8]
Context. The post is about 32 days old and concerns an event at a private venue, and no source published after it covers the Tokyo hotel bottle. Coverage therefore gives no directional signal either way.[1][2][3]
Sources
9 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 5 not rated, 1 rated low
- 1Fact Check Posts – PolitiFactpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Don't get spun by internet rumors.factcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Soapbox Archives | Snopes.comsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Gifted Travel to Japandirtycongress.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Bubbles Across the Pacific: The Evolution, Economics, and ...glassandnote.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6GOSS - Champagne Hunterschampagnehunters.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Tokyo Rooftop Bars Complete Guide — Quick Answer: Park Hyatt ...yenfinder.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Why Champagne Is Expensive: The Price Explained | VinoVonkvinovonk.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9日本文部科学大臣就违规举办政治资金筹款派对道歉news.cn · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: context
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