Someone decided that making a bottle of vodka worth $1.3 million made from silver, gold and diamonds was a good idea.
 |
| More Money Than Sense |
Apparently it was to
“woo Russian royalty, tycoons, and wealthy aficionados worldwide,” .... why is not clear to anyone who is not '
Russian royalty, tycoons, and wealthy aficionados', but there you are.
Anyway on New Years day 2018, it was stolen from the Café 33 bar in Copenhagen Denmark, where the
Russo-Baltique bottle was on loan to a Danish collector, and it was presumed that it was gone forever.
 |
| Vodka Thief .... |
However it appears that the thief was merely a drunkard, because a few days later the bottle turned up on a building site .... empty but undamaged. The club owner said that all they had to do was refill it, and it had lost no value. I suspect that there was a petty thief somewhere in Denmark who was feeling pretty sick that week, and I don't just mean over the hangover.
 |
| Hell Cabs Do Exist ..... |
Actually Copenhagen must be one hell of a party town. On New Years Eve 2017, a drunken man got in a taxi and asked to be taken to Oslo in Norway. Now I don't know about where you live, but not many taxi drivers would accept a fare that meant crossing three borders
(requiring a passport as well), without some sort of upfront surety.
 |
| Getting A Taxi On New Years Eve Can Be Hard. |
Anyway, off they set on a 6 hour, 377 mile trip. When they got to Oslo at 1am on New Years Day 2018, the passenger in his 40's jumped out and ran off ..... only to be caught by the police who found him sleeping off his drink. He escaped arrest by paying the 18,000 krona
(£1,650 $2206) bill
Incidentally, despite its billing in reports as the
'World's most expensive vodka' this is not actually the most expensive vodka in the world anymore
(if it ever was). In 2018 the 10 most expensive vodkas per bottle were:
- Billionaire Vokda – $7.25 Million
- The Eye of the Dragon – $5.5 Million
- Billionaire Vodka – $3.7 Million
- Russo-Baltique Vodka – $1.3 Million
- DIVA Premium Vodka – $1 Million
- Russo-Baltique Vodka – $740,000
- Kors Vodka 24k, George V Limited Edition – $24,500
- Absolut Crystal Pinstripe Black Bottle – $10,000
- Belver Bears – $7,240
- OVAL Swarovski Crystal Vodka – $6,922
No comments:
Post a Comment
All comments are welcomed, or even just thanks if you enjoyed the post. But please make any comment relevant to the post it appears under. Off topic comments will be blocked or removed.
Moderation is on for older posts to stop spamming and comments that are off topic or inappropriate from being posted .... comments are reviewed within 48 hours. I don't block normal comments that are on topic and not inappropriate. Vexatious comments that may cause upset to other commentators, or that are attempting to espouse a particular wider political view, are reviewed before acceptance. But a certain amount of debate around a post topic is accepted, as long as it remains generally on topic and is not an attempt to become sounding board for some other cause.
Final decision on all comments is held by the blog author and is final.
Comments are always monitored for bad or abusive language, and or illegal statements i.e. overtly racist or sexist content. Spam is not tolerated and is removed.
Commentaires ne sont surveillés que pour le mauvais ou abusif langue ou déclarations illégales ie contenu ouvertement raciste ou sexiste. Spam ne est pas toléré et est éliminé.