Man Selling Collection Of Rare Booze For $8 Million
Bay van der Bunt, 63, with his collection of rare liquors
The world’s greatest collector of rare liquor has announced that he’s putting it all up for sale. So if you’ve got an extra eight million bucks lying around (that’s right, $8,000,000) and you enjoy looking at dusty bottle of booze, you might consider giving the guy a call.
Act fast, though, because I’m pretty sure there are a bunch of hip-hop moguls and Saudi princes out there who would love to buy some $50,000 bottles of 200-year-old cognac to impress their friends.
The Dutch collector, Bay van der Bunt, 63, claims that his collection of rare cognacs, whiskeys, armagnacs, ports, and madeiras is the world’s largest.
It all started when he inherited a collection of several hundred bottles from his grandfather. Then he started adding to the collection himself.
“Over the last 35 years,” van der Bunt explains, “I frequented worldwide auctions like Chistie’s and Sotheby’s. I bought from famous restaurants like Maxim’s and La Tour d’Argent in Paris and Le Cirque in New York when they thinned out their cellars. Some cognacs even belonged to the estate of the duke of Windsor.”
That’s an awful lot of time and energy acquiring booze for someone who’s not even an alcoholic.
Anyway, some of the oldest bottles date all the way back to 1789. But van der Bunt says that, since he and his wife don’t have any children, there is no one to whom they can leave the collection when they die. Thus, they’ve decided to sell it all.
Personally, I’d just wait another 20 years, then try to dink it all. It would be a hell of a way to go.
[via UPI]
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