Elizabeth Warren wooed donors at top Manhattan restaurant boasting $6,600 wines

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Elizabeth Warren recently made headlines jabbing 2020 Democratic rival Pete Buttigieg over his Napa Valley "wine cave" fundraiser. But the Massachusetts senator's own campaign fundraisers have sometimes taken place at a restaurant boasting bottles that cost more than $6,500.

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A dinner at the restaurant's main dining room runs $134 for a three-course tasting menu — and that's before the wine. While customers can find wines such as the Chilean white La Ruptura at $48, Gramercy Tavern's 34-page wine list also offers bottles of Burgundies costing $6,600, such as Domaine Coche-Dury's 2013 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru.

The Warren campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

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Revelations of Warren's own ritzy fundraisers come after her attacks on Buttigieg's wealthy donor base. At Thursday's Democratic primary debate, Warren implied the South Bend, Indiana, mayor was selling access to his campaign through fundraisers held in locations such as wine caves that featured $900 bottles of wine.

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"We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States," Warren said. "Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States."

Buttigieg responded by saying Warren was "issuing purity tests [she] cannot pass," citing the money she raised from wealthy donors for her Senate campaign, of which millions of dollars were transferred to her presidential campaign. Following the debate, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and winery owner himself, condemned Warren's comments and said wine was "one of America's great exports."

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