Spirits, what you drinking...

[haseat]

~ $2300 USD

Somewhere there, yes. I got an offer from a german dealer for EUR 1150, the last auction i found in the UK finished at GBP 1600, but after Brexit UK auctions are not an option for us in the EU anymore, due to VAT etc.

Anyway, looks like I'm gonna keep it for another couple of years and enjoy more reasonably priced single malts in the meantime .

 

[Doodski]

Picked up some vinO and whiskey. Not sure about the whiskey because I was eating strawberries and the whiskey tasted sharp and medicinal after the strawberries. So I need to wait for awhile and then taste test the whiskey again.

 

[escape2]

Buffalo Trace.

 

[Flaesh]

Funny blend; not so funny as claimed, but funny:

46º, about $18-19 here.

 

[astcal]

Bought around 2014 at less than 1/3 of the current price.

 

[mansr]

Someone at my local pub must have ordered a bottle of Aberlour A'bunadh, because it was sitting (unopened) on the whisky shelf. As it was a quiet night, we (staff and a couple of regulars) thought it a good idea to sample it. It was a good idea. Then we checked the price. That was not a good idea.

 

[Flaesh]

 

[Flaesh]

Power‘s.. Gold Label

I'm thinking about what to buy - Teeling Small Batch that I definitely like or unknown for me Powers Gold Label .. The price here and now is the same.

 

[Laserjock]

Monkey Shoulder

 

[mansr]

Someone at my local pub must have ordered a bottle of Aberlour A'bunadh, because it was sitting (unopened) on the whisky shelf.

Turns out there was a delivery mixup and someone managed to hold onto that bottle.

 

[Raindog123]

Turns out there was a delivery mixup and someone managed to hold onto that bottle.

If I’ll ever have the honor drinking whisky with you, I know what bottle to get!

And the good news, it’s “only” $120/750ml at a local Total Wine & More!

 

[dlieb]

Bought around 2014 at less than 1/3 of the current price.View attachment 187674

Holy cow! I am jealous.

 

[Ilkless]

Local bar I go to has a whisky auction. There's a unicorn bottle - a 1969 Springbank aged over 30 years - that has ludicrously low bids compared to what it usually goes for. My bid is winning at the moment. It will be by far the most expensive bottle I have ever bought but, simultaneously, it is not a price so divorced from reality I can't fathom rationing and drinking it on very special occasions (in contrast to Japanese whisky). But it has recently sold for between 4 to 6 times what I will pay if I win. That'd bring me a long way towards my endgame setup of nCore active horns + BACCH + multisub, which makes selling it on difficult to ignore.

It's just that I'm not sure if I can find a buyer who'd be willing to pay that price locally because the prices I'm seeing are elsewhere. But never did I think a unicorn bottle like that would be within my grasp.

 

[Soniclife]

They ain't kidding.

This might be one of the lowest age statement whisky's from a popular distillery. I've long been a fan of younger peat monsters, this doesn't disappoint, full on Ardbeg. This should be clashing with the Beth Orton I'm currently playing, but it's working for me.

 

[Soniclife]

Interesting, has Scotland/official Scotch entity had issues with that?

Not that I'm aware of, it's not being passed of as Scottish so there is nothing to complain about. The rules about what is Scottish whisky are very clear.

Scotch whisky - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The rules about other countries products are similarly clear, and largely drive the way they taste different, or more accurately the rules are defined to kept the products the way they have been. The differences are interesting, they don't define quality, but they do largely explain my preferences.

 

[Soniclife]

An article about triple distilling in whisky https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/know-triple-distilled-whisky/

A decent article.
I'm very undersold on the 2 Vs 3 thing being important, in the hands of professional distillers, I'd be doing triple if I was doing it, but I do seem to keep preferring double to triple across a range of different things, I'll take the maximum flavour over the refinement I guess.

 

[Chrispy]

Not that I'm aware of, it's not being passed of as Scottish so there is nothing to complain about. The rules about what is Scottish whisky are very clear.

Scotch whisky - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The rules about other countries products are similarly clear, and largely drive the way they taste different, or more accurately the rules are defined to kept the products the way they have been. The differences are interesting, they don't define quality, but they do largely explain my preferences.

I was just thinking back to something I'd read a long time ago about how only one Japanese distillery had been blessed by the Scots....

 

[Soniclife]

I was just thinking back to something I'd read a long time ago about how only one Japanese distillery had been blessed by the Scots....

The Japanese stuff is good, I'd be intrigued to know what was said.

 

[Multicore]

Does my avatar answer the question?

 

[Chrispy]

The Japanese stuff is good, I'd be intrigued to know what was said.

I thought it was an excerpt in a book I have, Whisk(e)y by Stefan Gabanyi, but don't see it in there under the Japanese or Suntory (which I was thinking it was) sections....not sure where I picked that up now.....read something along the lines that only one whisky was allowed from Japan to use the nomentclature scotch but my google fu is finding some backup to the restriction of the name, but nothing about it being allowed either. Now that I look at some labels again they don't say scotch otoh.