Too dear a dram for me
I enjoy fine scotch whisky as much as the next Douglas, Duncan or Macdonald.
But I am not the anonymous new owner of this prize -- a 157-year-old bottle of Bowmore single malt sold at auction last week in Glasgow for 29,400 pounds.
Let's see. I make that out to be ... $60,081. 70.
Ach aye!
Now, even new Bowmore (12 years old) is very good stuff. So this bottle is bound to better than a bowl of haggis ... by a long shot.
But what makes it worth 60 grand? And if you paid that much for it, would you drink it?
Obviously you can't do that. Its intrinsic value can't be anywhere near the price.
It's meant to be kept, treasured, displayed and -- if the purchaser is a Scot -- resold for even more money sometime in the future.
(Thanks to whisky fancier Fred for alerting me to this news item.)
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But what makes it worth 60 grand? And if you paid that much for it, would you drink it?* Doug
Sure I would as a Scot myself. I would drink the whole sucker with a little coke in it [ make that coke cola]
And then Uriate back into the bottle and put it up on E-Bay saying Paris Hilton, Lindsy Lohan, OJ, Britney all share this bottle at a wild party in Vegas.
By the way Fred! Your cheap dunken bid was rejected as usual.
Posted on October 1, 2007 11:29 PM
Connie, this is possibly the most vile comment you have ever posted on my blog.
Mix Coca-Cola with a fine single-malt scotch whisky?
No wonder you were too ashamed to sign your name.
Posted on October 2, 2007 8:39 AM
Connie, this is possibly the most vile comment you have ever posted on my blog.* Doug
Right! I hate selling good stuff on E-Bay to the idiots. I will lie like a good Scot to save our historial knowledge of the finer things in life.
Mix Coca-Cola with a fine single-malt scotch whisky?* Doug
That was to throw off the Stupid Jack Danials fans who really believe that adding coke to their stuff is the best drink in the world.
No wonder you were too ashamed to sign your name.* Doug
Yeah I know! But I fiqure most of the bloggers here would think that George Bush was the idiot who did it....I will do anything to blame the present Republican leadership for it's failures in politics....
Posted on October 2, 2007 11:29 AM
You can make a pretty good Scotch by getting some cheap bourbon and adding 3 tablespoons of ashes from your grill and marinating the whole mess with three dirty socks and a used tea bag. Strain it through a coffee filter, put it in a fancy decanter, and you can fool even the snobbiest Scotch snob.
This works a lot better than my recipe for baby formula, which involved mayonnaise, flour, and tap water, but didn't fool either of our children when they were babies.
Posted on October 2, 2007 12:02 PM
Connie,
We thought you were a homeless troll, having been banned by most local bloggers but it looks like Doug is just being charitable and letting you in out of the cold.
Brian444,
You jest of course but here is a recipe for
Homemade Drambuie@
Posted on October 2, 2007 12:33 PM
I, too, appreciate brian's sense of humor.
If he's not joking, he could launch another highlands uprising with those words.
Posted on October 2, 2007 12:42 PM
Well, Doug, it doesn't take much to launch a highlands uprising, does it?
I actually like scotch, although I can hardly afford it at today's prices. I'll make you a batch of my stuff and see if you can distinguish it from the real thing.
Posted on October 2, 2007 2:16 PM
I'll admit there may be some whiskys that would be difficult to distinguish from your concoction -- and anything that's been sitting in a bottle for 157 years might be among them. But God gifted Scotland with fine water, barley and other ingredients, and in using them to create whiskys like the Macallen 18, the Scots did not let Him down.
Posted on October 2, 2007 2:43 PM
Connie,
We thought you were a homeless troll, having been banned by most local bloggers but it looks like Doug is just being charitable and letting you in out of the cold.
Brian444,
You jest of course but here is a recipe for you*Brian444,
Brian! You are much dumber than I thought! You just confess in public on a blogging site about your amazing ability to make outlaw boot leg whisky. How are you going to explain that to your kids when a Swat ATF team rips your kitchen apart and charges you as a criminal tax protestor? Even Doug is not that dumb when comes to moving good Scot whisky though NASCAR racing teams.
Posted on October 2, 2007 6:55 PM