Lafite down the lav
‘Hundreds’ of bottles of Lafite were emptied down the loo
As quoted in the most recent FT Weekend (7/8 October), Sandra Davis, one of London’s top divorce lawyers, and head of Mishcon’s family law division, recalled how, in one of her cases, a woman emptied her husband’s entire wine collection down the loo.
When asked by the journalist to explain, she said that she wouldn’t divulge any detail, but admitted that a large and valuable cellar was lost in the act.
“Every bottle – Château Lafite, et cetera,” she said was drained – and not in the way the winemaker intended.
“It was becoming an issue in relation to how the assets were being divided and the wife just thought, ‘Sod it’….