Mr. Wei is fortunate to be successful at what he does. His business prowess has afforded him a lifestyle that most only dream about however one day he learned a hard lesson about extravagance and honesty.
While on a trip he found himself residing at The Waldhaus Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland. There he was privy to their extensive rare whiskey collection. Many of these whiskeys are out of any normal persons price range but with his financial success Mr. Wei sat at the bar and ordered himself a shot of Macallan 1878. Considered to be the oldest whiskey in the world this single shot cost him a whopping $10,000!
Word got around a shot of this infamous whiskey was ordered and a handful of whiskey connoisseurs began to wonder if the hefty price tag was worth it so they contacted Sandro Bernasconi, hotel manager to find out. Thinking nothing was out of the ordinary, and wanting to ensure the authenticity of the hotel's claims to the rarest whiskeys, they brought in Oxford University experts to put it to the test.
As it turns out what they found shocked even the hotel management.
The tests revealed that the whiskey was in fact a near-worthless blended scotch dating to 1970; a pretty far cry from the year that was advertised. The research team also found several mistakes on the bottle's label, asserting that it was a fake.
Wei had his money refunded by the hotel, and Bernasconi flew to China personally to apologize to his customer. He stated to Fox News that “When it comes to selling our customers some of the world’s rarest and oldest whiskeys, we felt it was our duty to ensure that our stock is 100 percent authentic and the real deal.”
While he did get his money and a well-traveled apology it goes to show you, if it seems to good to be true it probably is!
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