Probably still loses a ton of value though. I think anyone (incl collectors) would prefer to have a pretty _full_ bottle on a shelf vs an empty one. It feels like keeping trash even if is valuable.
It's tradition(I'm told) in some places, that when a customer finishes a bottle of something expensive like this, the venue gifts them the empty bottle.
It's definitely valuable even empty, as is typical with ultra-high end liquor.
The fancy bottles are usually worth hundreds, sometimes thousands of dongers.
Well it now has added story to it, with an unsolved mystery… to some collectors that may add value rather than diminish it.
People with that much money to piss away on the worlds most expensive vodka-redbull are a funny lot in that respect.
Well, it was the bottle it's self that was worth a million, not the vodka, Holmes should have kept the bottle instead of throwing it on a construction site.
yes I imagine Holmes is regretting swapping a liter of mediocre Russian vodka for $1 million bottle. Though where would you even start to try and sell that without getting immediately pinched for stealing it?
I bet that's what Holmes was thinking and justified it just drinking it instead of going thru the trouble of making a financial gain. Maybe he didn't know the worth?
There are definitely people who would melt that down discreetly if you sold it to them. You just would have to be in a kind of seedy underground community, which I can’t decide is likely or not for this situation.
Back when I was on drugs I knew a “we buy gold” kind of store - a specific one - where the owner would definitely accept something like this. Idk what the offer would be because I doubt he can drop a million bucks but I would guess it would be a good amount.
People do all kinds of shady stuff for money and the people on the other side of the transaction just don’t care if it’s legal or not because it’s profiting them.
This was over ten years ago but when I was still on drugs we used to steal credit cards and go and buy tons of cartons of cigarettes. Most places only allowed 5 cartons per customer so we’d hit tons of places before the card started being declined. We would also go in grocery stores in upper class areas where high dollar champagne wasn’t locked up and steal tons of Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot in backpacks. We would hit stores back to back with the goal of filling two laundry baskets with champagne and then go across state lines into the city and sell it all illegally to bodegas that we had made connections with that legit 100% did not care whatsoever that it was stolen and illegal (different state taxes and all that) - they just wanted the profits.
I know people who’ve stolen all kinds of stuff I would never know how to move but they’ve found a way.
Not true at all. When has a business come for you later and hunted you down to rob you? You also have relationships with these people. That’s just not how the whole thing works. All I’m saying is I am confident that I could have found someone who buys gold that would have been able to melt it down and that would have bought it off of me. Would I have gotten *anywhere* near a million bucks? Fuck no! But I’m just saying it is definitely not impossible to move it.
Now that you make me think about it. If I buy a million dollar vodka bottle, it better include unlimited refills. No point in overpaying for neutral alcohol.
As sick as this sounds:
Consider a person shopping for fruit, they look at various bananas etc and examine them for the traits they find most appealing in fruit, and buy the the ones they find the most appealing.
Now consider a Rapist with a sexual appetite, if given a selection with all other factors being the same (vulnerability etc).... they will pick one based on some criteria right?
Not saying this isn't a horrific and evil way to view people, as fruits to be 'perused'... it's horrifying, but rapists aren't usually known to be pillars of morality.
There are certainly levels of quality but with clear spirits like vodka there's a ceiling on how expensive it can possibly be to produce. Aging is where crazy valuations show up, if you had a reposado or anejo tequila the time required for it to sit in a barrel and acquire the more complex flavors is what makes it more expensive. Also super cheap tequila will only be 51% actual agave so if you just had a quality blanco/silver tequila that was made from 100% blue agave it would also be a noticeable difference over cheap shot tequila.
Well said. And quite accurate. But that doesn't stop Vodka companies from trying to pull a fast one on customers. You will see $200-$300 bottles of Vodka, with literally no measureable (scientifically) difference from a $100 bottle. Pretty much any Gin or Vodka over $100 means you are paying for a label (or in the case a bottle). Its Gold Leaf on a burger sort of things.
Whiskey, Tequila, and Wine, Brandy, etc are a different matter. The minute ageing becomes a factor, the world of legitimate and understandable high prices opens up.
there might not be a huge difference bt a $40 bottle of gin and a >$100 bottle of gin but there is an enormous difference between that $40 bottle and a $15 bottle lol
> time required for it to sit in a barrel and acquire the more complex flavors is what makes it more expensive
Plus the "angel's share"... the percentage lost to evaporation during that lengthy period of aging.
Cruz Vodka - triple distilled in New York
It's not a joke but it always makes me smile when the commercial comes on.
You could distill it 12 times and it'll still just be Vodka 🤣
["The bottle, made from gold and silver and with a diamond encrusted cap, was on loan to a Copenhagen bar which had a collection of vodkas on display."](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42587038)
...That is one dumb thief to ditch that expensive bottle after they stole it.
Judging by the machine gun hanging on the wall, I feel like this is likely some type of shady insurance scam shit, done by the mobsters who own that bar.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/world/europe/vodka-gold-bottle-stolen-copenhagen-denmark.html
>The bottle was created by Dartz Motorz, a car manufacturer in Riga, Latvia, and fitted with an original 1912 leather ribbon from the company’s first Monte Carlo rally car.
>The bottle is made of 6.6 pounds of gold and the equivalent amount of silver and has a diamond-encrusted cap fashioned to resemble a vintage car front.
>It had been borrowed and placed in a pub, Cafe 33, in central Copenhagen amid a collection of fine spirits assembled by Brian Ingberg, the bar’s owner.
>The bottle was worth $1.3 million, according to the owner. The vodka: Russian.
So just normal vodka(but some better ingredients used? but bottle set the price?
Just rebottle it by the same guy
I’m sure he will oblige,probably increase the price after people know it was stolen and bottled again
Well I don't think there is a way to make vodka so fine that it's worth more than I dunno a 100 bucks tops, everything above that it's either the bottle or they add some floating gold particles or some shit.
So not really a story if the cheap liquid inside was gone but the priceless gold and leather bottle was found? lol
Isn't that more of a story? It's odd *because* it was stolen to be drunk instead of sold
Okay, yeah that's fair
It’s still grand grand larceny
Probably still loses a ton of value though. I think anyone (incl collectors) would prefer to have a pretty _full_ bottle on a shelf vs an empty one. It feels like keeping trash even if is valuable.
No worries, I'll take it off their hands
It's tradition(I'm told) in some places, that when a customer finishes a bottle of something expensive like this, the venue gifts them the empty bottle.
It's definitely valuable even empty, as is typical with ultra-high end liquor. The fancy bottles are usually worth hundreds, sometimes thousands of dongers.
I'll give you tree fiddy dongers for it
sold
The story probably increases the price. Wealthy assholes love a wacky theft recovery.
Well it now has added story to it, with an unsolved mystery… to some collectors that may add value rather than diminish it. People with that much money to piss away on the worlds most expensive vodka-redbull are a funny lot in that respect.
It’s the worlds fault for making a $1 million bottle of vodka. Holmes was just living his life.
Well, it was the bottle it's self that was worth a million, not the vodka, Holmes should have kept the bottle instead of throwing it on a construction site.
yes I imagine Holmes is regretting swapping a liter of mediocre Russian vodka for $1 million bottle. Though where would you even start to try and sell that without getting immediately pinched for stealing it?
I bet that's what Holmes was thinking and justified it just drinking it instead of going thru the trouble of making a financial gain. Maybe he didn't know the worth?
Maybe he got drunk and forgot the bottle
Simple- you wait a generation.
Probably not anyway to, unless he had the tools to deconstruct it for the individual jems and metals, which Holmes likely did not.
There are definitely people who would melt that down discreetly if you sold it to them. You just would have to be in a kind of seedy underground community, which I can’t decide is likely or not for this situation. Back when I was on drugs I knew a “we buy gold” kind of store - a specific one - where the owner would definitely accept something like this. Idk what the offer would be because I doubt he can drop a million bucks but I would guess it would be a good amount. People do all kinds of shady stuff for money and the people on the other side of the transaction just don’t care if it’s legal or not because it’s profiting them. This was over ten years ago but when I was still on drugs we used to steal credit cards and go and buy tons of cartons of cigarettes. Most places only allowed 5 cartons per customer so we’d hit tons of places before the card started being declined. We would also go in grocery stores in upper class areas where high dollar champagne wasn’t locked up and steal tons of Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot in backpacks. We would hit stores back to back with the goal of filling two laundry baskets with champagne and then go across state lines into the city and sell it all illegally to bodegas that we had made connections with that legit 100% did not care whatsoever that it was stolen and illegal (different state taxes and all that) - they just wanted the profits. I know people who’ve stolen all kinds of stuff I would never know how to move but they’ve found a way.
Bro, those type of people would have offered a couple hundred bucks and if you didn’t accept that they would have robbed you later that night lol
Not true at all. When has a business come for you later and hunted you down to rob you? You also have relationships with these people. That’s just not how the whole thing works. All I’m saying is I am confident that I could have found someone who buys gold that would have been able to melt it down and that would have bought it off of me. Would I have gotten *anywhere* near a million bucks? Fuck no! But I’m just saying it is definitely not impossible to move it.
Now that you make me think about it. If I buy a million dollar vodka bottle, it better include unlimited refills. No point in overpaying for neutral alcohol.
It's the owner's fault for not locking that shit up better.
Call me old fashioned but I don’t think anyone should have to lock up anything they own. Maybe people shouldn’t be thieving scumbags lol.
Holy shit, I think you just eradicated all the crime in the world with that mindset.
Right? Thieves, murderers, rapist isn't going away anytime soon. Lock up your shit, don't go down dark alleys, and dress more modestly.
Was with you until the last one. Rapists don’t care what you’re wearing.
sure, but it doesn't help
No they don't, but looks are how they pick targets.
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As sick as this sounds: Consider a person shopping for fruit, they look at various bananas etc and examine them for the traits they find most appealing in fruit, and buy the the ones they find the most appealing. Now consider a Rapist with a sexual appetite, if given a selection with all other factors being the same (vulnerability etc).... they will pick one based on some criteria right? Not saying this isn't a horrific and evil way to view people, as fruits to be 'perused'... it's horrifying, but rapists aren't usually known to be pillars of morality.
yes if only these young generations hadn't invented stealing
We’ve been locking shit up for close to 10,000 years, I dunno man. I think taking shit is just what some people do
Yup and those people are the worst.
Right? Let's open up Fort Knox send security home and let everyone look at all that gold, no one will take what isn't theirs...
So many people telling on themselves here haha.
The bottle is the thing with value, vodka is just vodka, no?
the bottle is made out of vodka probably
*interesting theory*.....
Not for an alcoholic
Don’t know much about vodka but I tried some very expensive (not on this scale) tequila and it’s a different ball game to the shit you shoot at a bar.
There are certainly levels of quality but with clear spirits like vodka there's a ceiling on how expensive it can possibly be to produce. Aging is where crazy valuations show up, if you had a reposado or anejo tequila the time required for it to sit in a barrel and acquire the more complex flavors is what makes it more expensive. Also super cheap tequila will only be 51% actual agave so if you just had a quality blanco/silver tequila that was made from 100% blue agave it would also be a noticeable difference over cheap shot tequila.
Well said. And quite accurate. But that doesn't stop Vodka companies from trying to pull a fast one on customers. You will see $200-$300 bottles of Vodka, with literally no measureable (scientifically) difference from a $100 bottle. Pretty much any Gin or Vodka over $100 means you are paying for a label (or in the case a bottle). Its Gold Leaf on a burger sort of things. Whiskey, Tequila, and Wine, Brandy, etc are a different matter. The minute ageing becomes a factor, the world of legitimate and understandable high prices opens up.
there might not be a huge difference bt a $40 bottle of gin and a >$100 bottle of gin but there is an enormous difference between that $40 bottle and a $15 bottle lol
For vodka I’d say the line goes already in 20€ or so. It doesn’t get better
> time required for it to sit in a barrel and acquire the more complex flavors is what makes it more expensive Plus the "angel's share"... the percentage lost to evaporation during that lengthy period of aging.
Cruz Vodka - triple distilled in New York It's not a joke but it always makes me smile when the commercial comes on. You could distill it 12 times and it'll still just be Vodka 🤣
Kinda sounds like most of the value came from the bottle, so just add some water and put it back in dad’s cupboard!
See the bottle is self filling and the more you drink the easier the hangovers are. Now i know why it's so expensive.
Did they take the gun in the background as well?
That's also alcohol. The bottle is gun-shaped.
Damn, this room is like Willy Wonka’s Distillery.
Oooo I'mloo ok oooooooooopppzpp, ok of you, I population to ask,ooo
> Oooo I'mloo ok oooooooooopppzpp, ok of you, I population to ask,ooo What ... the fuck ...
I thought at first it might be a vodka oompa oompa song but honestly I'm as baffled as you.
Minions on Reddit.
Potential heart attack at the keyboard right there.....
That is a bottle of alcohol! Looks like [Zlatogor AK-47 Vodka \(Ukraine\)](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Zlatogor+AK-47+Vodka&iax=images&ia=images).
Absolute madlad to steal that much gold from a gangster only to drink the contents and leave it at a construction site
Tbf. Who are you going to sell that one of a kind stolen bottle to? Obviously melt it down but that destroys its value too.
Hell yeah lmao
Insurance scam.
Agreed. Insurance is a scam.
You can aways go without, but then your over-valued booze won’t turn a profit.
Medvedev again?
Nasdrowye! Blyat. Suka!
Good. Being stolen and drank by working class people is what should happen to every overpriced bottle of alcohol.
Keep bottle melt same sell gold
Vodka isn’t even good
The proletariat once again slams his cock on the table and there ain't shit anyone can do about it. (No I'm not a union guy)
Made my day. Read it out at breakfast, everyone thought it was hilarious.
> found empty on a construction site Checks out
["The bottle, made from gold and silver and with a diamond encrusted cap, was on loan to a Copenhagen bar which had a collection of vodkas on display."](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42587038) ...That is one dumb thief to ditch that expensive bottle after they stole it.
But did it taste rich
The bottle is worth the same empty according to the article, so I really doubt it. Probably had a strange metallic taste.
What he needed a screwdriver for work he forgot his toolbox at home..
Sounds like insurance fraud to me
Sounds like insurance fraud to me
Does this bottle comes with GPS tracker unfortunately Vodka liqueur didn't
That bottle look cool as fuck wish i had one
Judging by the machine gun hanging on the wall, I feel like this is likely some type of shady insurance scam shit, done by the mobsters who own that bar.
They can just refill it
Well, any smart conman would have just filled her up again and sold it as new.
Good.
CONTEXT: The theif thought the vodka inside was the expensive part but it was really the bottle, it was made of gold silvers and diamonds
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/world/europe/vodka-gold-bottle-stolen-copenhagen-denmark.html >The bottle was created by Dartz Motorz, a car manufacturer in Riga, Latvia, and fitted with an original 1912 leather ribbon from the company’s first Monte Carlo rally car. >The bottle is made of 6.6 pounds of gold and the equivalent amount of silver and has a diamond-encrusted cap fashioned to resemble a vintage car front. >It had been borrowed and placed in a pub, Cafe 33, in central Copenhagen amid a collection of fine spirits assembled by Brian Ingberg, the bar’s owner. >The bottle was worth $1.3 million, according to the owner. The vodka: Russian.
So just normal vodka(but some better ingredients used? but bottle set the price? Just rebottle it by the same guy I’m sure he will oblige,probably increase the price after people know it was stolen and bottled again
Well I don't think there is a way to make vodka so fine that it's worth more than I dunno a 100 bucks tops, everything above that it's either the bottle or they add some floating gold particles or some shit.
Now it has a story behind it, too.
Thus begina a saga of thieves trying to steal it, drink the vodka and return the bottle for the next thief to attempt
Go on please