65 Cases of Pappy Van Winkle Heisted From Kentucky Distillery

Trip Gabriel, reporting for the NYT:

Sheriff Melton said the culprit stole 195 bottles in three-bottle cases of Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year, which has a suggested retail price of $130 a bottle, and nine cases of 13-year-old Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye, with a suggested price of $69. The thief had an obvious motive: the secondary market for the scarce whiskey is hot. A single bottle of 20-year-old Pappy, as aficionados know it, sold at Bonham’s auction in New York on Sunday for $1,190.

If anyone knows anything about this crime, please let me know.

★ Sunday, 20 October 2013