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The theft of rare and expensive bottles from the Spanish restaurant Atrio in October 2021 has still not been solved. Now the Catalan newspaper El Periódico reports, without naming sources, that most of the loot of around one million euros - including Romanée-Conti and Château d'Yquem from the 19th and 20th centuries - is said to have been "sold to a group of rich Russian citizens". "In fact, investigators suspect that it was a robbery carried out with a list of potential buyers for the wines," the newspaper writes.
The two perpetrators arrested in July 2022 - Romanian-born Constantin Gabriel D. and former Mexican beauty queen Priscila L. G. - still do not say where the bottles could be. El Periódico speculates that the most valuable bottle from the robbery, a Château d'Yquem 1806 worth around 310,000 euros, could have been hidden by D. as a kind of "retirement provision" for after his prison stay. D. is accused of further thefts from Romanée-Conti: He is alleged to have stolen two bottles from a Madrid wine shop and three bottles from the duty-free shop at Geneva airport, for which he has already been charged.
(al / source: wine-searcher; photo: restauranteatrio)