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A bottle of cognac which worthed 64 000 € shattered !

  • by Jeanne Bourgain
  • 30 July 2012 at 15h41 pm

 

Vente aux enchères de la Tour d'Argent : bouteille de CognacIn London, at London's Playboy Club, a businessman interested to learn more about his cocktail 5000 pounds a glass, awkwardly broke a bottle of brandy 1788 which worthed value 64 000 €.

" Tu ne touches qu’avec les yeux ! "We repeated our mothers at the museum or at the bakery ... which is a saying that London businessman does not remember on a recent night escape.

Made at London's Playboy Club, hangout hype of the British capital where the mixologist and owner, Salvatore Calabrese, prides itself on preparing the cocktail world's most expensive, now our business man orders a glass 5000 books (more than 6000 €).

Only, in avid antique bottles, it wants to know more about the precious liquid at the base of the cocktail. He then grabbed the bottle on the table and looks at the label. The story does not say any more about the nature or cause of false move, but what is certain, is that the précieux flacon que le propriétaire estimait à 64 000 € a fini brisé en mille morceaux sur le sol du bar !

Une maladresse assez fâcheuse puisque ce cognac était l’ingrédient essentiel du cocktail qui devait figurer comme « cocktail le plus cher du monde » au Guinness Book of Records. Furthermore, this old Clos du Cognac Griffier of 1788 was a rare and historic, as evidenced by Salvatore Calabrese daily Evening Standard (whose remarks were relayed by Express) : « J’ai eu le cœur brisé. Pas à cause de la valeur de la bouteille mais parce que c’est un morceau d’histoire qui a été perdu. " For 2009, elle avait été vendue aux enchères à Paris par la Tour d’Argent pour 30 500 €, the benefit of the Association Petits Princes. Two more bottles of cognac were respectively even been awarded 21 066And € 18 588€.

The icing on the cake, the bottle, since already open, was not assured. But the bar owner claims to have forgiven and relativizes the customer. On his Twitter page, you could see irony about this misadventure, arguant que le sol de son bar est désormais le plus cher au monde : 100% British humor ...

 

Source : L'Express. Fr

 

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Tags: AccidentLittle Princes AssociationCognac bottleCave de la Tour d'ArgentThe most expensive cocktail in the worldLondon's Playboy Clubauctions

 

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  1. Oliver Viney says:
    31 July 2012 at 18 h 30 min

    Finalement ce Cognac est probablement plus honoré par terre que dans le gosier d’un neuneu prêt à débourser 5000 Livres pour un cocktail, ou même entre les mains d’un Barman qui met un cognac de 1788 dans un cocktail.

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  2. CAILLAVET says:
    1 August 2012 at 13 h 31 min

    Indeed, fâcheuse maladresse et tristesse de perdre ainsi un nectar historique.
    Mais ceci soulève la remarque suivante : il est bien dommage d’utiliser un Cognac 1788 pour l’élaboration d’un cocktail…
    Ne se suffit-il pas à lui même ?
    Sauf à considérer que le-dit breuvage n’a plus aucun intérêt gustatif et qu’il faille le marier à d’autres alcools ou jus de fruits…

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