£50,000 historic Cognac bottle shattered
23rd July, 2012 by Patrick SchmittA customer at London’s Playboy Club accidentally smashed a £50,000 bottle of Cognac destined for a record-breaking cocktail.
The Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac from 1788 before it was smashed
The Coganc, a Clos de Griffier Vieux from 1788, was destroyed after a businessman, who had ordered two glasses of the brandy at £5,050 a measure, asked to look at the bottle.
As the customer stood up, he sent the bottle flying across the club, before it smashed on the floor.
The Cognac was due to feature in the world’s most expensive cocktail, which would have been mixed this week by Salvatore Calabrese in front of judges from Guinness World Records.
Apparently the bottle is not insured because it had already been opened.
Speaking to the Evening Standard after the accident happened at the end of last week, Salvatore said: “We all just froze, then it sunk in. I’ve been heartbroken. Not because of the value of the bottle, but because it is a piece of history that has been lost.”
The bottle had previously been in the cellars of Paris restaurant La Tour d’Argent and was auctioned in late 2009, fetching €25,000, before appearing on the drinks list at the Playboy Club.
Click here more information on the auction and the contents of La Tour d’Argent’s cellar.
Remember Sokolin’s 1787 Margaux ?
Perhaps a very appropriate comparison
Oops!
Do they have a “you break it, you bought it” policy?
It seems that such incidentals would be covered by the terms and conditions of membership.
Really???? 75K for a liquid that will end up as piss in a toilet while children starve – GOOD glad it’s gone
Um, Mike .. breaking that bottle was like burning a 75K note .. now there is NO money to share with your “starving children”. Reasoning like yours is why people do not understand why countries with the fewest wealthy people are also the countries with the most starving children.
Grow up Bob. You seem more materialistic than my 12 year old daughter.
He’s right. There’s an idiot around every corner willing to part with their money. If not we couldn’t feed those hungry kids. We need capitalism to help do good things. How do,you know the owner of the bottle doesn’t give thousands a year to charity? You don’t….the end.
“Grow up Bob. You seem more materialistic than my 12 year old daughter”
Sounds like you daughter has her communist Dad figured out.
Why don’t you tell us about all the humanitarian and medical foreign aid that comes from North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba vs from America?
BOB BOB BOB – the issue is not paying 75K for the bottle – the issue is drinking it – see if you wanna pay 75K for a piece of history with a story display it – “that bottle there is 200+ years old and was made before Napoleon” I get that – but buying it – drinking it turning it to piss for 75K – that my friend is a Brewster’s millions best
I’ll wager you are a joy to be around.
Oh just stop it!
LMAO!!!!!!!! I agree with you.
At that age isn’t it pretty much all vinegar now anyway?
Congratulations, guy. You got the Last Shot from this famous bottle. Join the august company of the rat (may his name be forgotten) who sought HIS fame by getting the Last Autograph from John Lennon.
Come on dude cool your jets and get a hold of your personal space …
See with your eyes, not your hands
Hmm, shamu would blush
That’s gonna leave a scar!
Probably the dictator of some banana republic we give foreign aid to.
He deserves to be SHOT for that!!!
No use crying over spilt milk. ~ Mrs. O’Leary
£5,050 shots!
THIS is what the so called “job creators” are doing with their money!
D’OH!
Well if I was at that club, I would have been licking it up of the floor, for free!
Mind you, I doubt that they would let a middle class working man like me into the club in the first place…
I wonder who the jerk-off was that did this? Someone must have a name?
Abruti! (asshole in French).
The problems of rich people.
NO insurance – DEVASTATING!!!!
No sure how a thread like this can turn onto one persons random comments…but I think you are all missing the real story. Salvatore was actually flairing as secretly he turns his nose up at the pomp and ceremony of hotel bars…really he wanted to work at Roadhouse but actually wasn’t good enough so decided to spend other peoples money on ridiculously expensive spirits as to attract PR for what are simply basic classic cocktails that any decent well trained bartender knocks out at a respectable £7.50 – £8.50 at ‘normal bars’ in london. That said its reasonable paying £15 a cocktail in a hotel bar as £7.50 of that cost is made up of massive olives, funky nuts and black pepper cashew nuts
Check please.
There is a *Playboy* club? The world is OK once again.
224 years, 2012, the Maya were right!