Coffee taster gets £2million nose insurance

Meet the real life Mr Bean, coffee taster Dave Roberts - who has just had his nose insured for £2million.

Nothing beats those fresh coffee aromas permeating throughout the house or the local cafe, but Mr Roberts does it every day as the chief taster for Nestle.

Responsible for sourcing beans from around the world, the human sniffer says smelling coffee in the kitchen as a child helped him pursue his career as a food technologist.

'One of my youngest memories is of my grandmother making fresh coffee in her kitchen, which is perhaps one of the many things which continues to inspire me working in the coffee industry.

'I am often reminded of that fond memory when I am at work tasting coffee.'

Product tasting is a serious business and there are other tasters who have even more expensive honkers than the one Mr. Roberts posseses.

Dutch wine maestro Ilja Gort was so keen to sure up his snout he insured his nose for a whopping £4million.

Usually it's celebrities who take out insurance on their limbs with the likes of David Beckham (£100million - full body) and Keith Richards (£1.6million - hands).


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