The Scotch Thread

[RX_EVOLV]

Originally posted by roopi


I hope you mean its locked in the cabinet.

Out of curiosity now since we are talking about these 50 year old scotches. What is the most you've spent on a bottle of scotch?

I think the max I have spent is $220-$250. I don't recall buying anything more expensive then that right now. I could have drank to much scotch and forgotten though.

Not too much since most of my purchases were done before the huge price hike. They are 'worth' alot more now but I didn't pay today's price for them, and I have yet to buy anything expensive with the current prices.

Some of the more expensive purchases I can remember over the years....

Macallan Edition No. 2 - $150 (I guess this is pretty recent...)
Johnnie Walker Royal Route - $180 USD
Talisker 25 - $220
Whisky Advent Calendar - $400
Glenlivet 21 Archive - $150
Blue label- $120 USD
Bruichladdich Cuvee 382 - $130
Hibiki 17 - $150
Tsuru 17 - $150

There are a few $350+ bottles that I really want to pull the trigger on but have yet to do so.

[Inzane]

I'm not baller enough.

The most expensive I've bought to date was Highland Park 18yr, when it was around $120. And I don't even like it that much unfortunately.

2nd most expensive was Clynelish 14yr at ~$95-100 and I love it.

[roopi]

Originally posted by Sorath


Not a fan of the 12, My fav is the Mac 18, im slowly collecting whatever is left out there hehe. I have a Glenfarclas 17 and it is great, dont think ive tried the 21 but the 40 is amazing.

There is still Mac 18 out there? I always look for this and can never find it. Had it once and never found it again.

[TYMSMNY]

Originally posted by roopi


There is still Mac 18 out there? I always look for this and can never find it. Had it once and never found it again.

All from the states. Quite a few depending on where you look. 1996/1997 bottles.

[Inzane]

Originally posted by roopi


There is still Mac 18 out there? I always look for this and can never find it. Had it once and never found it again.

You can buy it in the US still, but it's not cheap. When I saw it in Anaheim back in 2015 it was somewhere in the neighbourhood of $180-200 USD a bottle.

[roopi]

Yeah I've seen it in the US. I thought maybe there was the odd place that still has one or two around here.

[TYMSMNY]

Originally posted by roopi
Yeah I've seen it in the US. I thought maybe there was the odd place that still has one or two around here.

At most I've had 4 bottles at once, now i'm down to 1.5. Time to restock!

no places in Canada had them regularly in stock.

[jdmakkord]

Originally posted by Epididymitis



thats a gooder, i really enjoy the balvenie line up, port wood being my fav.

Yeah. The cask date was 5 days after my birthday. Not bad for 37 years.

[carson blocks]

Originally posted by roopi

Out of curiosity now since we are talking about these 50 year old scotches. What is the most you've spent on a bottle of scotch?
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Nothing crazy, I think the most was ~$250 on a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue for a special occasion. It was nice, but not ~$90 nicer than the Platinum. My favourite Scotch in my cabinet is a simple $85 bottle of Glenlivet Nadurra.

[TYMSMNY]

Originally posted by roopi


Out of curiosity now since we are talking about these 50 year old scotches. What is the most you've spent on a bottle of scotch?

Yamazaki 18s and Yamazaki 18 LE. all around 500-800cad each.

[tirebob]

Originally posted by carson blocks


Nothing crazy, I think the most was ~$250 on a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue for a special occasion. It was nice, but not ~$90 nicer than the Platinum. My favourite Scotch in my cabinet is a simple $85 bottle of Glenlivet Nadurra.

I really enjoy the Nadura as well! Great value in an excellent Scotch whisky...

Originally posted by TYMSMNY


Yamazaki 18s and Yamazaki 18 LE. all around 500-800cad each.

Nice whisky... But it isn't Scotch. Haha! Sorry man... Just pretending to be a snob now! I love all kinds of whisky but region is important or all sparkling white wine would be called champagne.

[TYMSMNY]

Originally posted by tirebob

I really enjoy the Nadura as well! Great value in an excellent Scotch whisky...



Nice whisky... But it isn't Scotch. Haha! Sorry man... Just pretending to be a snob now! I love all kinds of whisky but region is important or all sparkling white wine would be called champagne.

haha, I got what you're laying down.

Macallan 21 then as bought, the wooden boxes gives me the tingles. Macallan 25 as a gift.

[TYMSMNY]

Anyone going to whisky in the Warehouse 2016 on Nov 2 at WP?

[tirebob]

Originally posted by TYMSMNY
Anyone going to whisky in the Warehouse 2016 on Nov 2 at WP?

I am supposed to be going, you bet! Hopefully nothing comes up to sewer the plan... This time of year is chaos for me!

[ercchry]

Yup! I try and make it to both this one and the spring event they put on

[ercchry]

Didn't see tymsny or bob... but was a good night, decent amount of new offerings too

[TYMSMNY]

Originally posted by ercchry
Didn't see tymsny or bob... but was a good night, decent amount of new offerings too

I know, I missed it. Wife and I went for dinner to celebrate instead. She's not into the scotch/whisky...

good to hear it was awesome. maybe next year... have to keep feeding her Mac18 until then. That's her "fav" out of all the ones I "force her to try".

any notable new ones?

[ercchry]

It's almost getting too big to try everything, but it wasn't as busy as last year which was good.

Looking through the guide I missed a lot of stuff I wanted to try. Stuff I haven't seen at any willow park events would be first editions and old malt cask independent bottlers, old malt stuff was pretty good, and reasonably priced considering they are actually age statement bottles. All were 18 or 20 year olds and around the $150 mark

Glencadam is one I haven't seen before, they were at the tomintoul booth, typical highland stuff

Yellow spot was interesting, mostly cause I don't have much experience with Irish whiskey outside of Jameson's

Ka va LAN had their port, sherry, and bourbon cask bottles there. The bourbon one was cask strength and have a real single malt feel to it vs their super smooth and somewhat boring port cask

Balvenie had a strong showing with 6 bottles, never tried the 17yr doublewood or 21yr portwood, very enjoyable

And as always the food was awesome!

[tirebob]

Originally posted by ercchry
Didn't see tymsny or bob... but was a good night, decent amount of new offerings too

I was there from 5:30 until 7:30... Had to leave before I got drunk!

What was your fave? The Royal Brackla 21 was really nice for me. The Balblair 1997 single cask was delicious too! Really there were many awesome bottles but those were my top two stand outs.

[ercchry]

Yeah it's tough not to end up drunk at these events... there for I cannot tell you which is my favourite I tried