US: Bombay Sapphire launches $200k gin bottle

By | 19 March 2008

Bacardi-owned gin brand Bombay Sapphire has launched a luxury, limited-edition bottle in collaboration with crystal manufacturer Baccarat and the jeweller Garrard.
 
Bombay Sapphire Revelation is described by the company as the "ultimate in luxury and sophistication". Each of the five bottles produced will retail for US$200,000, with the profits going to the Smile Train charity, which provides life-enhancing cleft surgery to children in need.

"It's the ultimate Bombay Sapphire bottle," said Gary Chau, marketing director at Bacardi Global Travel Retail. "Revelation is an inspiring creation for a true connoisseur and marks a new level of elegance."
 
Revelation is a clear, crystalline-shaped decanter, with ten principle facets each of which
represents one of the ten botanicals used in Bombay Sapphire Gin. Each bottle is topped with a jewel-encrusted stopper, containing sapphire gems.
 
The Revelation bottles will be launched at five major international airport locations, beginning in London Heathrow Terminal 5, and moving on to Singapore, New York, Dubai, and Sydney. One Revelation bottle will be exhibited at each of the five international airports for several months.

Sectors: Spirits

Companies: Bacardi

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Sad One is led to believe that at $200,000 each bottle, 5x 200,000 = $1,000.000 that will go to charity?! Bullshit...
it will be $ 1,000.000 less costs + profit =zero!! Obviously the special bottle and other services from Baccarat and Garrard cost more than $1,000,000!
How cum you still keep falling for these Press Releases with such nonsense, created by PR Managers earning GREAT WAGES AND BENEFITS just to fool the likes of you, who in turn wouyld like to fool the likes of us. Disgusting!

 

Pedro Brazofuerte said at 3:11 am, March 20, 2008

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