Wine heist, part trois
The plot thickens! First, $500,000 of rare Bordeaux goes missing from a restaurant in Sweden last August. “Only 600 bottles of the best wine were stolen. They did not take any of the cheaper wines. They were real professionals,” Lars Fagerlund, restaurant manager, told decanter.com.
Then in late December, the “big wine caper” took place in the well-heeled enclave of Atherton, California. Thieves cracked the electronic code and stole 450 super-premium bottles of wine. The New York Times wrote that “There was no sign of forced entry, indicating the possibility of an inside job…The perpetrator had a discerning palate, leaving behind lesser vintages. The average bottle stolen was reported to be worth $222.”
Now news is coming out of Bordeaux of yet another heist. “Over €600,000 of first growth and other top Bordeaux wines have been stolen from one of France’s oldest negociant houses in a heist which bears all the hallmarks of an inside job,” reports decanter.com.
Wow, international intrigue, precious wine, savvy thieves–someone had better alert a screen writer and Catherine Zeta-Jones! THIS is the wine screenplay they have been waiting for! (Sorry, Russell Crowe)
tags: wine | wine collecting
On February 24th, 2007 at 10:29 am ,Joe wrote:
A more interesting plot line than Sideways, but I fear many collectors would allow Catherine to violate their cellar.
On February 24th, 2007 at 12:03 pm ,John wrote:
How about Nick Cage and Angelina Jolie for Gone in 60 Seconds part two?
On February 24th, 2007 at 6:21 pm ,De Vino wrote:
It happened in Italy as well few years ago I think the Enoteca Pinchiorri cellars got hit.
In the movie I will see better Pierce Brosman than Nicolas Cage 🙂
Dr Vino do you have another get together event planned I will love to come this time.
Ciao
Gabrio
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On February 25th, 2007 at 8:56 am ,Dr. Vino wrote:
haha great suggestions! We need to get Hugh Grant in there somewhere. And a cameo for Sean Connery. Screenwriters, take out your MacBook Pros and get thee to a Starbucks!
Thanks for adding the Italian part too, Gabrio. Yet more material! Thanks for your interest in the next NYC meetup. I’m thinking week after next….East Village? LES? March 8? Details to follow. It will be nice to meet you.
Cheers,
Tyler
On February 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am ,De Vino wrote:
Here is how I see the movie:
Pierce is a famous thief; we are in the year 2020 the heat made disappear 90% of the vineyards in Burgundy, Bordeaux, Piedmont and Tuscany.
I see Sean Connery as the old rich guy that cannot renounce to the good juices and decide to hire Pierce to gather the best collection of wine still existing around the world.
Hugh Grant is the chief of the Interpol in charge of the investigation.
Caterina could be Sean’s wife and I also see Monica Bellucci as the bad girl that eventually sleeps with Hugh and Nicole Kidman as the Pierce’s skilled girlfriend.
I think the locations should be Japan, were Mr. Kumamoto has more than 100 000 bottles in his cellar, Italy were a huge earthquake buried the Giacomo Conterno underground cellars supposedly containing 50000 bottles dating back to the early 1900s.
Than obviously France with Mr. Roland retired winemaker that now dedicate his life to drink what he had made, London, at this time completely underwater and the new Atlantis New York a huge dome under 500 ft of water were people are allowed to live there just if they worth more than 10 billion dollars with the highest level of security ever placed in earth.
What you guys think so far can the movie make it to the Razzie awards?
Ciao
On February 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Sounds great, Gabrio! I’d pay $10 to go and see that movie!!
On February 26th, 2007 at 2:08 am ,Cru Master wrote:
I can only see Johnny Depp in the lead – as the discerning wine thief – who can speak multiple languages!
He steals the wine for his mistress (played by non other than Scarlett Johansson) who lives in a cabin with an underground cellar in the Austrian alps!
On April 9th, 2007 at 12:28 pm ,Dr Vino’s wine blog » Blog Archive » No catsuits, wine shooters, distiller-in-chief, corked — tasting sized pours wrote:
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