Can you imagine shelling out more than half a million dollars for a bottle of potent Chinese hard liquor?
A brand of Maotai, China’s most famous type of distilled liquor, recently sold one bottle for 3.78 million yuan (approximately $601,200) on a popular online shopping platform. The colossal price caused a lot of media attention. Hong Kong media reported that the exorbitant bottle was made by a liquor company with a connection to state-owned firms.