By that logic, shouldn’t they charge $150 per pea?

A recent British study concluded that people who think a bottle of wine is more expensive will enjoy it more. You can go ahead and draw your own conclusions about paying $500 for bottle service if you’d like. We’ll wait.

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse (8721 W. Charleston Blvd.) is taking money out of the equation tomorrow night — temporarily. Don’t get excited, the waiter is still bringing a check at the end of the night.

The restaurant’s five-course High-Low Wine Dinner offers three courses paired with two different wines, and guests must deduce which of the two is the more expensive vino. We spent our collegiate years cradling four-liter bottles of Carlo Rossi, so we’re probably not qualified for this exercise.

By Jason Scavone

(Photos by Erik Kabik)

In case you couldn’t make it to Studio 54 inside the MGM Grand last night for Rock ‘n’ Roll Wine Amplified! featuring former Train singer Pat Monahan (maybe you were watching Bette Midler with us and half the gay population of Las Vegas — more on that later), have no fear — we’ve brought you pictures and a report. Sorry, no audio or video this time.

Monahan performed for 40 minutes, dropping Train hits such as “Meet Virginia” and “Drops of Jupiter” on the wine-drenched crowd, which included a number of grabby female fans. In addition to Monahan’s performance, the event of course featured more than 20 wineries and 50 distinctive wines and bite-sized morsels from Fiamma Trattoria, as well as an opening musical set by local acoustic crooner Jeremy Cornwell.

By Pj Perez

We’ll try not to bore you to tears with too much news about the new Palazzo resort and its grand opening festivities that begin tonight … but, well, if you spent $1.8 billion building a hotel and casino, you’d expect some press too.

To that end, some little bird told us that Morels French Steakhouse & Bistro recently appointed Nicholas Hetzel as its beverage director and lead sommelier. That means if your drinks suck, blame the smiling guy in the picture above. But given his extensive experience in the industry — including stints as head sommelier at Redd in Yountville, Calif. and general manager of n.v. in Napa, Calif. — we don’t foresee any problems in that department.

Plus, the guy’s a UNLV graduate. A true Rebel can always be counted on — especially where alcohol is involved.

By Pj Perez