Bit of background - would mean a 25 was bottled in 2015 as production really begun in 1990. I think that price is probably a bit high, given a foreign site but worth cracking open and giving a right good tasting… could be great. …of course it could be a bit pants and worth more unopened, but thems the choices… As mentioned above if I had never opened my lagavulin 1979 distillers it woudl be around £1400 now,but I would have missed and exceptional whisky experience that cost me £47. I dont ‘collecrt’ just buy to drink.
Yep that is correct… unlike wine Whisky does not change in the bottle. However, you do see prices increase for very good stuff as it becomes rarer… especially since many distilaries are no longer producing to the same quality as they did 20/30 years ago. My 1979 distilled/1995 bottled 16 year old distillers edition Lagavulin was £47 in 1995. An unopened, boxed bottle can be found for £1400 today… mainly because its rare and it was consider bloody good… which is very true sadly i only have a quarter bottle left so its in effect £100 a dram now so I feel guilty even ooking at it
I only have one rule about drinking whisky… and its not about what its worth or cost, but I never drink it alone… that is an easy way to ruin… only with pleasent company who apprecites it. The guilt is because Idont wantto share it!
Every time I take the Singapore office out for dinner, I ask who wants wine. I then have to ask of those who want wine, who is going to pour cola into it. Those who put their hands up get a glass of house red, and I keep the good stuff for the for, well, me.