A Thames restaurant is marking the beginning of the grouse season, which starts on August 12th, with a special meal featuring a bottle of Burgundy's pride Romanee-Conti Grands Echezeaux.

Four people will be able to dine on grouse and fine wine at High Timber for a price of £1,050 - a considerable reduction from the wine's normal restaurant price of £1,900, according to foodepedia.co.uk.

"I use these words very carefully when I say this is the opportunity of a lifetime to experience a wine with such an incredible – and well deserved – reputation," commented Nelee Strauss, the owner of the restaurant.

However, the Drinks Business noted that, for those who would rather skip the meal and go straight to the wine, a bottle of Romanee-Conti Grands Echezeaux 1999 can be bought for £602 from FINE+RARE.

Earlier this year, the Romanee-Conti vineyard was targeted in a blackmail attack after a criminal threatened to poison the vines unless owner Aubert de Villaine handed over €1 million (£833,000).