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at the airport in Glasgow yesterday, treated myself to a bottle of Laphroaig, my favourite. in a case was a bottle of old scotch, single malt, cant remember the name but it was £6000. i know its a "collectors item" and all, but can it really be that much better than a good reasonably priced bottle? i think not.... but then i wouldnt pay more than a fiver for a bottle of red either.
No, you're assuming that what the market will pay for something is in any way related to how good something is in relation to its competitors, which it isn't necessarily.
if you pay 6k for a bottle, would you drink it?
or keep it?
if you were to keep it, it doesnt matter what it tastes like?
It's the same as wine - although the REALLY expensive stuff is better than cheaper stuff, it's not really any better than quite expensive stuff. You're paying for exclusivity and availability, if there were hundreds of thousands of bottles of that particular scotch, then they wouldn't be £6K a pop.
Personally for wine, I'll pay around £10-12 a bottle as it's noticeably better than the stuff that costs £3 a bottle, but it's not much better (to my palate) than the stuff that costs £30 a bottle.
My father-in-law mistakenly opened and drank a £2,000 bottle of whisky a couple of months ago. He'd won it as a prize but didn't realise it's value until after it was finished! He was raging as he would have sold it if he knew the value. Sadly I didn't get a chance to sample any!
Certainly not five thousand nine hundred and seventy pounds better, you can be fairly sure of that.
An £80 bottle of whisky that I had recently was miles better than anything I've tried at £30ish (and I've tried lots!).
I doubt you'll tell much difference above a couple of hundred though. At that level is just the exclusivity your paying for.
It depends on how big it is
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or if there is a free gift
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Everybody likes a nice tartan rug.
That, and the fact that you'll want to hammer on endlessly to your impressionable 'mates' how much you spunked on a bottle of whisky.
At the Connect Festival a couple of years ago I spent most of the day in the Whisky Tent and got talking to one of the guys that ran it. He said that beyond a certain age, which a lot of these super expensive ones are, they are actually undrinkable so you're just buying them for display use only!
The whisky wasn't Port Ellen was it? That ditillery was closed down years ago and the whiskys from it change hands for ludicrous amounts of cash, even though the whiskey was never that great anyway (according to Michael Jackson's book). So it's just a collector's thing.
Michael Jackson? Did he like a wee one every now and again?
Michael Jackson? Did he like a wee one every now and again?
Aye, his favourites were the 8 or 10 year olds 😳
I'll get both our coats.
And a new keyboard for me!