£50,000 HISTORIC COGNAC BOTTLE SHATTERED

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£50,000 HISTORIC COGNAC BOTTLE SHATTERED

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OOOOPS!

A customer at London’s Playboy Club accidentally smashed a £50,000 bottle of Cognac destined for a record-breaking cocktail.

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.
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Now that's alcohol abuse!
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Sorry guys, it was an accident. I feel really bad about it.
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That is a good reason to drink instead of collect and admire! What a waste.
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Hard to feel sorry for these pretentious muppets , why open it , spirits don't age in glass so it would have tasted like a 10 yr old cognac . I think the real sacrilege here was pulling the cork out :problem: , breaking a opened partly used bottle is no big deal done it myself :lol:
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They paid £25,000, they were selling it at £5050 per drink and were going to get a Guinness World Record...yeah, I'd be pissed if some bloke broke it because he doesn't know how to stand up without dropping an almost priceless bottle of alcohol. That's a huge investment loss. After they sold 5 drinks out of it the rest was all profit. The only thing I'd say is if they were going to get a Guinness World Record out of it why the hell were they passing it around like a cheap cigar?
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Don't they have shop vacs over there?

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rtalbigr wrote:Don't they have shop vacs over there?

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....oops.
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Glad it wasn't one of my bottles... Worth a lot more... :lolno:
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Meh ...Conyak makes me gag anyway.
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