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Canadian Theif Walks Out Of Liquor Store With Bottle Of Scotch Worth $26K
When a man in a Burberry shirt, cap and brown trench coat paid for his bottle of wine at a Queens Quay liquor store on Saturday April 7, he was just another customer stocking up for the weekend. Only later was he suspected of stealing a bottle of scotch.
But it wasn’t just any bottle of scotch. It was a 50-year-old Glenfiddich Single Malt, valued at $26,000, one of only 15 in Ontario and 50 worldwide.
It was also the single most expensive item ever stolen from an Liquor Control Board of Ontario store, said Heather MacGregor, media relations co-coordinator for the LCBO.
“This bottle was displayed in a locked cabinet,” she said, adding that there were other high-priced items stored at that location as well, including seven bottles of Rémy Martin Louis XIII Cognac, valued at $2,800 each, and an $800 bottle of Chateau Margaux vintage wine. “There are quite a few very exclusive and rare products that are offered at that store.”
According to Andrew Ferguson, co-manager and whisky expert at the Calgary-based Kensington Wine Market, the 700-millilitre bottle fetched such a high price because of its rarity. Glenfiddich, one of the best-known and most-decorated scotch distilleries in the world, produces very few bottles in that age range.
“They don’t have a lot of older whisky, and yet they’re the world’s number one selling Single Malt,” he said. “It’s like any luxury good. If the value seems to be high for something it not only creates an incentive for thieves, but it creates an incentive for counterfeiters as well.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/23/police-hunt-for-man-who-lefthout-paying-for-his-26000-bottle-of-scotch/
But it wasn’t just any bottle of scotch. It was a 50-year-old Glenfiddich Single Malt, valued at $26,000, one of only 15 in Ontario and 50 worldwide.
It was also the single most expensive item ever stolen from an Liquor Control Board of Ontario store, said Heather MacGregor, media relations co-coordinator for the LCBO.
“This bottle was displayed in a locked cabinet,” she said, adding that there were other high-priced items stored at that location as well, including seven bottles of Rémy Martin Louis XIII Cognac, valued at $2,800 each, and an $800 bottle of Chateau Margaux vintage wine. “There are quite a few very exclusive and rare products that are offered at that store.”
According to Andrew Ferguson, co-manager and whisky expert at the Calgary-based Kensington Wine Market, the 700-millilitre bottle fetched such a high price because of its rarity. Glenfiddich, one of the best-known and most-decorated scotch distilleries in the world, produces very few bottles in that age range.
“They don’t have a lot of older whisky, and yet they’re the world’s number one selling Single Malt,” he said. “It’s like any luxury good. If the value seems to be high for something it not only creates an incentive for thieves, but it creates an incentive for counterfeiters as well.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/23/police-hunt-for-man-who-lefthout-paying-for-his-26000-bottle-of-scotch/
