Refund for young Chinese man who paid US$10,000 for a shot of 1878 Macallan whisky. It was fake

A shot of Macallan whisky purportedly bottled in 1878 that a Chinese man paid US$10,000 for at a Swiss hotel was actually distilled between 1970 and 1972, local media reported on Friday.

In August, the young customer entered the Devil’s Place Whisky Bar at the luxury Waldhaus hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, and expressed particular interest in rare Macallans.

The bar, which has a whisky collection honoured in the Guinness Book of World Records, had 47 options, ranging from seven Swiss francs to 10 grand per glass.

The customer chose the bottle marked as an 1878 vintage, which went for 9,999 Swiss francs (US$10,000, 8,500 euros) for a two-centilitre (0.66-fluid-ounce) measure.