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That $1,000 Bourbon You Bought May Be a Phony
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<blockquote data-quote="RSteve" data-source="post: 568908" data-attributes="member: 164"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The article looks at the extremes in booze counterfeiting. It happens at a far more pedestrian level. Every bar/cocktail lounge has its own chemist or crook. Grey Goose, Hope, and Froggy vodka are literally the same product, from the same distillery and tanks in France owned by Bacardi. The distillery produces far more vodka than it can sell at the retail of Grey Goose, so it off loads in other brands at significantly lower prices. There is no way of knowing how many times that Grey Goose bottle behind the bar has been refilled with Hope, Froggy, or another vodka brand from that distillery. Order a mixed cocktail based on Grey Goose and who knows what you are getting?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">There was a situation in Western Wisconsin, where a bar owner was repeatedly cited for selling to those underage and allowing smoking in the bar, after ordinances prohibited it. He was told that once he'd sold off his current liquor inventory, he could remain in business as a restaurant, but with no liquor. After a year, still in operation, the authorities became suspicious and posted surveillance. The bar owner, it was discovered, was buying liquor at retail in St. Paul, and refilling bottles in his establishment. There was a court case and trial. One of the employees admitted that she knew the owner was not only refilling bottles, but substituting as well, like pouring Seagrams 7 into V.O. Bottles and V.O into Crown Royal bottles.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSteve, post: 568908, member: 164"] [SIZE=5]The article looks at the extremes in booze counterfeiting. It happens at a far more pedestrian level. Every bar/cocktail lounge has its own chemist or crook. Grey Goose, Hope, and Froggy vodka are literally the same product, from the same distillery and tanks in France owned by Bacardi. The distillery produces far more vodka than it can sell at the retail of Grey Goose, so it off loads in other brands at significantly lower prices. There is no way of knowing how many times that Grey Goose bottle behind the bar has been refilled with Hope, Froggy, or another vodka brand from that distillery. Order a mixed cocktail based on Grey Goose and who knows what you are getting? There was a situation in Western Wisconsin, where a bar owner was repeatedly cited for selling to those underage and allowing smoking in the bar, after ordinances prohibited it. He was told that once he'd sold off his current liquor inventory, he could remain in business as a restaurant, but with no liquor. After a year, still in operation, the authorities became suspicious and posted surveillance. The bar owner, it was discovered, was buying liquor at retail in St. Paul, and refilling bottles in his establishment. There was a court case and trial. One of the employees admitted that she knew the owner was not only refilling bottles, but substituting as well, like pouring Seagrams 7 into V.O. Bottles and V.O into Crown Royal bottles.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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