Overview
We might as well get the “showing off how cool my whisky collection is” off with a bang. Except this isn’t my whisky. It belongs to my dad.
Currently, this is selling for around £2,000 at auction. That’s around £100 for a single measure. I’ll let that sink in for a moment… and now it’s sunk in, you can imagine spilling that at a bar!
I bought this for my dad’s 60th birthday around 17 years ago. It cost about £200 (from memory) and since then it’s been sat in the bottle, in the nice wooden box, in the drinks cabinet, in their living room.
This touches on a problem with whisky. I often get bought bottles of rare cask strength whiskies that seem “too good” to have on a regular basis. Sometimes they’re “too good” to have, on all but the most special of occasions… and eventually, you end up with a whisky that is “so good” that you can’t for shame to open it.
| Colour | Nose | Palate | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orangey | No idea, probably fruity? | Haven’t the foggiest, I suspect smooth? | Dunno… but I bet it’s nice |
Conclusion
This is a whisky for the “money men”. Buy 5-6 bottles, possibly open one, leave the rest to “mature” and then sell them at auction, years later, reaping a vast profit. Except when I bought my dad this bottle, I couldn’t afford to buy more than one bottle. So it sits in the dark. In the drinks cabinet, of a 3-bed semi, occasionally being looked at and put away again.
Hopefully the Kelpie Whiskies we’re offering are a departure from this trend with exceptional whiskies at unexceptional prices.
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