Chinese passenger brings festive cheer to Aéroports de Paris and Aelia (bought $65,300 wine)

The Moodie Report ^ | 12/25/08 | Martin Moodie

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Chinese passenger brings festive cheer to Aéroports de Paris and Aelia with €46,423 duty free wine purchase – 25/12/08

Source: ©The Moodie Report

By Martin Moodie

FRANCE. A Chinese passenger yesterday created an all-time individual purchasing high for Aéroports de Paris by spending €46,423 on a range of great French wines.

The shopper made the purchase at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Terminal E’s La Galerie Parisienne store, run by the Société de Distribution Aéroportuaire retail joint venture with Aelia.

The traveller bought the following wines:

– Côtes-du-Rhône La Tche 1991 – Château Lafite Rothschild 1947 – Chateau Petrus 1986 – Romanée Conti 2002 – Vieux Château Certan 1982 – Château Palmer 1994 (two bottles) – Château Margaux 1982 – Château Latour 1976 – Château Haut-Brion 1958

The purchase was an all-time record, outstripping the previous best – also by a Chinese traveller – of €23,000 set in March 2007.

The wines were housed in Société de Distribution Aéroportuaire’s Oenothèque, an enclosed zone offering wines and Champagnes in a warm environment described as "reassuring to connoisseurs and appealing to beginners".

That reassurance paid off richly this Christmas Eve.

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€46,423 = $65,293.97

[Seven plus One]

I wonder if they had a tasting on the trip home.

[tired1]

Was he a another government official?

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Or his son or brother.
It is usually close relatives who pull stunt like this.

[Republican Party Reptile]

Well, he has good taste in wine —— hopefully good enough that he’s not going to drink it in a glass filled with ice cubes as many Chinese tend to do with red wine (ugh .. :(( )