Couple handed lengthy jail terms for theft of £1.4m worth of wine

The Editors, 08.03.2023

A 200-year-old bottle of Château d’Yquem among the haul Spanish police are yet to retrieve.

As wine thefts go, the removal of bottles worth £1.4million from an upmarket Spanish hotel would appear to be in the daring bracket, but the couple who successfully walked out with a haul of 45 bottles now face four-and-a-half year sentences for their crimes.