Yes. Even the old coot. 1 week left before she is back in qld. Huzzah
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I had a feed of whiskey last night while doing Santa and it brought out emotions in me i didn’t know existed.
A very very unpleasant experience.
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Whiskey leaves me in a state I can’t talky
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The collector of Crested Ten is a very decent fella as it turns out. Presented me with this yesterday morning with the advice to keep it safe. As you can see I didn’t take that advice. Carpe Diem!
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You can keep it safe in your belly
Yes, I’ll give it little chance of oxidisation. If it makes the New Year it’ll be lucky. It is a nice whiskey to be fair.
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I agree that whisky rarely needs to be stored on its side simply because it is not going to be kept long enough for cork desiccation to become a factor. Not sure about ‘cork taint’ (or some such term) becoming a factor where ‘long haul’ whisky is concerned. Genuinely not sure but I have a hunch problems with whisky corks would have far more to do general storage conditions — humidity in cellar and so forth — than with cork per se.
I have just one sliver of experience on this front. Around ten years ago, I bought six bottles of Macnab 15yo from a Dutch guy who had an eBay whisky shop for a bit. Macnab 15yo, a once off single malt, was a bottling of Ledaig 1972, a superb cult whisky. Lovely story but I will leave anyone interested google it themself rather than rambling on even more…
https://www.whisky-onlineauctions.com/ledaig-1972-1988-lot-id-377.html
Anyhow, this Dutch guy in the mid 2000s found two dozen cases or so of Macnab 15yo lying, forgotten, in a Scottish warehouse. He bought the cases, relabeled most of the bottles and sold them online. While I got through the bottles grand — and it is outstanding whisky — I could see there was an issue with the bottles’ cork. Nearly all of them were weak in some form — presumably from being stored, upright, in a warehouse (which would be anything but optimum cellar conditions) for nearly 20 years.
One last thing: never buy decent whisky on a ferry, because the constant vibration turns the whisky ‘gritty’ and inferior in taste and texture. Found out that point myself the hard way and later saw the science of it confirmed.
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For the curious, here is the original Macnab 15yo:
https://www.thedustybottle.com.au/product/the-macnab-15-year-old/
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I received a twelve years old bottle of midleton when our eldest was born. That was 16 years ago. Anybody any idea what it’s worth today?
What year is on the bottle?
Jayses, I don’t know. I’ll have to pull it out and have a look
If you have a 1988 or a 1989 with the attendant cardboard box in excellent condition, current prices are 500-800 euro, give or take.
That assessment, after having a squint around online, might be a small bit optimistic. But you would get a nice three figure sum, in all likelihood, selling privately to a collector.
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It’ll be worth that next time Limerick win an All Ireland.
Crack it open that night @iron_mike, and enjoy…
It’ll be had at my wake if I save it for that.
Current plan is to pass it onto the daughter.
I refer you to the movie “Sideways”
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Fuck - it’ll be worth some fortune when that happens