2.4 million max.. and that’s assuming that flooding the market with 100’s of those doesn’t drive down prices, and plus... what did the operation cost to retrieve them?
300 bottles of Cognac on the wall, 300 bottles of Cognac, you take one down you pass it around, 299 bottles of Cognac on the wall.
So they saved the bottle? And I pay a lot for that? Maybe the seal was bad and that's all that's left unless you want something that tastes of whale pee and crab.
Losing all of the bottles of Cognac must have been a real mar to the bar of the Tsar...
That Cognac belongs to Putin!
Give it to him before he goes nuclear!
So it’s literally the bottles.
Not the cognac that was in them.
I wondered what Benedictine Liquor is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bénédictine
https://www.benedictinedom.com
A bottle costs about $40. I’ll have to buy a bottle.
Cognac good - Armagnac better
Tangentially related...
Years and years ago, I bought a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle. Was 15 years old at the time. It was to celebrate the sale of a business. My biz partner never came back to my state for the closing, so it remained unopened.
Checked on the value at the end of last year.
Today worth over $10k.
Can’t bring myself to open it. And as an investment, can’t bring myself to sell it, since they can’t make more of that vintage. It keeps becoming more rare.
There’s hope for the stuff in the back of my fridge yet.
I wonder if it is still good after all these years under the sea.
I read years ago in National Geographic that, in the 1950s, they found unopened bottles in the ruins of Port Royal, Jamaica, sunk during the 1692 earthquake, but the liquor was not good to drink at all.
So, they are fake.
Not original cognac, just cleaned bottles with new cognac......................