1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
In focus
German election 2025Israel and the crisis in the Middle EastSyria
Latest audioLatest videos
Live TV
Crime

'Most expensive vodka bottle' stolen in Denmark

January 3, 2018

The reportedly $1.3 million Russo-Baltique bottle is made of gold and silver and has a diamond-studded cap. The owner of the Cafe 33 bar had been loaning the bottle from a Russian businessman.

https://p.dw.com/p/2qI4D
Cafe 33 bar in Copenhagen, Denmark
Cafe 33 in Copenhagen, DenmarkImage: picture-alliance/Scanpix/M.C. Rasmussen

A bottle of vodka claimed to be the most expensive in the world was stolen from a bar in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, local police said Wednesday.

World's most expensive vodka bottle
The bottle is reportedly worth $1.3 millionImage: picture-alliance/B. Ingberg/Scanpix 2018

The 6-kilogram (13.2-pound) bottle, made of gold and silver with a diamond-studded cap, was taken from the Café 33 bar, according to Danish public broadcaster TV2.

The bar's owner, Brian Engberg, said the Russo-Baltique bottle is worth $1.3 million (€1 million) and appeared on the US television series "House of Cards."

Read more: Berlin police make arrests over giant gold coin theft

CCTV footage showed what appeared to be a young man wearing a cap with a covered face entering the bar and taking the bottle.

Police said they could not confirm whether the thief broke into the bar or used a key.

The perpetrator did not steal anything else in the bar, which houses some 1,200 vodka bottles.

The bottle was on loan from a Russian businessman. Engberg said he had not insured it.

amp/rc (AP, dpa)