The family company specialized in wines Wines and Liquors Grau de Palafrugell, in Girona, has suffered this past Sunday the theft of nine of the bottles of wine most valuable of the wine bar, valued as a whole in more than €111,300. The event occurred at noon with the establishment open to the public and even when there were customers inside.
Vins i Licors Grau has extensive facilities made up of a large logistics warehouse next to which there is a spacious 1,700 square meter wine cellar, with numerous references of wines and spirits for direct sale to the public, including high-end bottles. The stolen specimens were kept in a special showcase where the owners display the most valuable bottles, and which has been forced by thieves.
According to one of the owners, Maria Dolors Segarrathey believe that the assailants are the same as They already tried to steal one of the bottles just a few days ago, but which the employees were able to thwart by capturing them on the way out. The thieves did not give up and returned on Sunday in broad daylight, this time more prepared and with the intention of taking more than one bottle.
Around 12:30 p.m., the assailants they forced the showcase loaded with suction cups and a lever, carrying the nine bottles in bags that were hidden to quickly run out of the establishment. A worker saw them escape making their way between customers and jumping over the counters, without anyone being able to stop them in their flight. A vehicle He was waiting for them at the exit, where it is believed that there was another accomplice; witnesses were able to take note of the license plate before the robbers fled.
The Mossos d’Esquadra received notice of the robbery after 1:00 p.m., beginning the investigation, which is currently still open no detainees. The stolen bottles are a Romanée Conti 2008 (€29,950), a Romanée Conti 2013 (€25,659), two La Tâche 2015 (€12,699 each), a Richebourg 2015 (€8,812), an Exhezeaux 2018 (€7,516), a Romanee St. Vivant 2018 (€7,127), a Petrus 2016 (€5,702) and a Chateau Margaux 2010 (€1,179).
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