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A Chinese man paid €8,500 for a glass of 139-year-old scotch that turned out to be fake

The owner of the Swiss bar travelled to Beijing and refunded the customer.

A MEASURE OF Macallan whisky purportedly made in 1878 that a Chinese man paid $10,000 for at a Swiss hotel was actually distilled between 1970 and 1972, local media reported Friday.

In August, the young customer entered the Devil’s Place Whisky Bar at the luxury Waldhaus Hotel in St. Moritz, northeast Switzerland, and expressed particular interest in rare Macallans.

The bar, which has a whiskey collection honoured in the Guinness Book of World Records, had 47 options, ranging from seven Swiss francs to ten grand per glass.

The customer chose the bottle marked as an 1878 vintage, which went for 9,999 Swiss francs (€8,500) for a two-centilitre measure.

Whiskey experts were not convinced.

According to the Swiss news site 20minuten.ch, specialists at Rare Whisky 101, who regularly serve as consultants at whiskey auctions, established that the bottle’s label was a fake.

The proprietor of the Waldhaus, Sandro Bernasconi, then travelled to Beijing and refunded the customer to prove that “the Swiss are honest people and do not engage in scams”, 20minuten quoted him as saying.

The site also published a photo of the two men holding a symbolic voucher valued at 9,999 Swiss francs, dated October 2017.

Bernasconi said the bottle with the fake label was bought 25 years ago by his father who previously ran the hotel.

“This whole time, we never doubted that the bottle was an original,” Bernasconi told 20minuten.

© – AFP 2017

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:58 PM

    Will parking be provided for all the big cars?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:34 PM

    Sounds like a cocktail-sausage fest

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:33 PM

    got my invite yesterday. cya all there amigos

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:50 PM

    My girlfriend always asks me to text her when I get in.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:46 PM

    A woman asked a guy she had just taken home,
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    was his answer…

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:08 PM

    Hope you enjoy the party Dermot.
    Bring back some little tips for us.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:38 PM

    I believe this could grow into something big

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    Feb 17th 2015, 11:53 PM

    You hope

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:19 PM

    Maybe their girlfriends just have big fannies?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:42 PM

    As someone who is hung like a baboon, (calm down ladies, currently the cage door is shut and the beast sleeps), I wish all the mini mickies all the best.
    Disclaimer- some artistic licence may have been used in this description.

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    Mute Lily
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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:58 PM

    That doesn’t bode well for you…

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    Mute Havardi
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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:02 PM

    If you are implying you’re bigger than you actually are by likening yours to that of a baboon, then maybe you should be heading to this party.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:06 PM

    Ah robbie, who’s the lucky guy??

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:19 PM

    Damn you all. Ok, I’ll come clean if you’ll pardon the phrase. It’s small but perfectly formed. It’s not so small that I can’t find it in the dark, others have struggled though.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:31 PM

    Oh Lily! :o

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:35 PM

    Might go, should be worth the£4 admittance

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:38 PM

    It’s 50p an inch not 2 pound so the night should set you back a quid.

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    Mute Dermot Lane
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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:45 PM

    I was going to go but the airfare is too expensive and I’m a little short

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:38 PM

    25 cent entry!!! Count me in

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:44 PM

    There’ll be short “cue” for that party!

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:06 PM

    I’m hung like a sparrow

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:40 PM

    It’ll be a good party for ladies who are watching their meat intake, they can have all they want and never feel full !!

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:08 PM

    Where’s bigwilly he should be commenting here cause he admitted he was tiny

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    Mute Glen
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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:14 PM

    So you’re looking for the big willy.

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    Feb 18th 2015, 3:36 AM

    Classic Glen.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:06 PM

    Me and my bodybuilder girlfriend are both going.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:09 PM

    Wonder will they use the Government jet to get there?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:55 PM

    So Bigus Dickus is a no no then

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:45 PM

    …….but Titus Khuntis very welcome

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    Feb 18th 2015, 12:00 AM

    He’ll be at home with his wife, Incontinentia Buttocks…

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:18 PM

    “Hi what do you work at?” ,”Middle Management..”, “Same here!”

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    Feb 17th 2015, 11:44 PM

    Is this a public event or members only?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:31 PM

    It won’t be where all the big knobs hang out

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:25 PM

    Let’s be honest lads …. How many of you have gotten out the ruler after reading this article?

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    Feb 18th 2015, 3:08 PM

    Don’t you mean the metre stick ?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:43 PM

    Seven euro admittance fee each for me and Mr Shalakalananaka’s a bit dear, I don’t think I’ll be there.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:07 PM

    That bouncer there was an absolute w*anker. I made an effort and he still said i’m not getting in tonight :(

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:40 PM

    I’m in the 10 inch club so thats me ruled out

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:44 PM

    Did your preDICKive text kick in there jack? CM turned into Inches ya?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:43 PM

    I bet you would but lm not like that

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:45 PM

    @Jack dexter
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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:47 PM

    FG/Labour should enter as the are all little p…..s. With current craze of TDs for declaring all wild and wonderful leanings this has powerful resonance,
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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:43 PM

    I doubt there will be too many ladies there.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:49 PM

    No point me goin, wouldn’t b allowed in
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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:18 PM

    Is that to scale?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:24 PM

    No way that’s too scale, it’s the Internet everyone lies on here.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:26 PM

    Phew. I was getting worried there for a second.

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:53 PM

    Ah lads I wouldn’t do it to scale, dont want ye to feel inadequate

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    Feb 17th 2015, 9:39 PM

    I wonder how big a venue it is ?

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    Feb 17th 2015, 10:53 PM

    Trolls club article , you all know each other that’s why you are very comfortable .

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    Feb 18th 2015, 2:12 AM

    It will probably fall short of expectations..

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    Feb 17th 2015, 8:44 PM

    @ “the Rhythm Factory” right….

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    Feb 18th 2015, 8:11 AM

    It’s twice the length of your thumb

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