of truffle. watching the security video, eddie immediately spots the shorts-clad bandit. i saw his face, and at first i wasn t even suspicious, because i recognized him. he s a customer. a regular customer. and i think he just went crazy. eddie makes a police report, but doesn t stop there. i, first off, called the police, and the second phone call was the tv station, local news, that actually rushed to the store. they really liked the story. this is no amber alert. this is about a stolen bottle of wine. all right. take a good look at him. police want to catch this guy. that s when attorney joseph rosenbaum gets a strange call. i got a call that i should watch the newscast, there was a guy that lifted an expensive bottle of wine, and that i should watch it, i ll be contacted in the next day. sure enough, the lafite rothschild ends up safely on rosenbaum s desk. i, myself, drove the bottle of wine over there, went into the shop, delivered the bottle of wine, and that
rosenbaum asks only that eddie sign a release, stating he won t prosecute the offender and eddie agrees. since the value of the wine was about $1,000, it would be considered grand theft third-degree in florida where the sentence maximum is five years, down to probation. but the bottle was dropped off anonymously and not even rosenbaum knows who the wine bandit is. to this date, i don t know if anybody s ever identified the person that s portrayed on the video taking the bottle of wine. the thief remains as deep and as mysterious as the lafite rothschild itself. luckily, eddie doesn t have any sour grapes about the theft. the owner was very grateful and very nice. he showed me some french wine, which i knew was a decent wine, so i bought two bottles. to celebrate the missing bottle s happy homecoming, eddie opens the now infamous lafite rothschild at a wine-tasting. it was just amazing. in the end, all that matters to eddie is that his beloved wine came home.
own temperature system where we keep all the older vintages, rare to find, very limited wine, all the gems. in october 2009, the 100-point room receives an unwelcome visitor. w wine boutique is bustling with activity as the miami beach elite taste a premiere champagne. from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., we are doing champagne testing. we had about 80 to 90 people, so the store was very, very busy. just after 7:00 p.m., a customer comes in and heads straight for the back. trying to look casual, he checks out the back door. then he surveys the 100-point room. no one in sight. satisfied with his scouting mission, the wine bandit decides it s time to make his move. eddie lagaric has it all caught on camera. right now he s grabbing the italian wine underneath and gets ready to switch his for the cheap italian wine. as he reaches for the expensive bottle, a 1990 lafite rothschild, other customers pass right by the room, nearly catching him red-handed, but the man makes the switch. ri
it s very special, extremely complex, more musk, a little bit of truffle. watching the security video, eddie immediately spots the shorts-clad bandit. i saw his face, and at first i wasn t even suspicious, because i recognized him. he s a customer. a regular customer. and i think he just went crazy. eddie makes a police report, but doesn t stop there. i, first off, called the police, and the second phone call was the tv station, local news, that actually rushed to the store. they really liked the story. this is no amber alert. this is about a stolen bottle of wine. all right. take a good look at him. police want to catch this guy. that s when attorney joseph rosenbaum gets a strange call. i got a call that i should watch the newscast, there was a guy that lifted an expensive bottle of wine, and that i should watch it, i ll be contacted in the next day. sure enough, the lafite rothschild winds up safely on rosenbaum s desk.
i, myself, drove the bottle of wine over there, went into the shop, delivered the bottle of wine, and that was it. rosenbaum asks only that eddie sign a release, stating he won t prosecute the offender and eddie agrees. since the value of the wine was about $1,000, it would be considered grand theft third-degree in florida where the sentence maximum is five years, down to probation. but the bottle was dropped off anonymously and not even rosenbaum knows who the wine bandit is. to this date, i don t know if anybody s ever identified the person that s portrayed on the video taking the bottle of wine. the thief remains as deep and as mysterious as the lafite rothschild itself. luckily, eddie doesn t have any sour grapes about the theft. the owner was very grateful and very nice. he showed me some french wine, which i knew was a decent wine, so i bought two bottles. to celebrate the missing bottle s happy homecoming, eddie opens the now infamous lafite rothschild at a wine-