A visit with purpose

[Pete Cooper]

We could make a minor detour(by car not boat) to this place:

http://www.whiskyshop.com/

Any good?

[Arghiro]

I have a 1/3 full bottle of Loch Dhu the black whisky that was produced as a novelty in the 80-90's matured in charred barrels. I got it at duty-free (reduced) for about 20squid. If I had bought a couple, unopened ones are now changing hands at over £300. A rare novelty & slightly sweet, but not particularly special.

Anyway, my point is that you have to be VERY knowledgeable or lucky to make money at it. Why would any dealer sell you something for a song that will be worth hundreds later if he knows for sure it will? It doesn't make sense does it? They are only going to sell you the risky ones that may or may not do well & keep the certainties for themselves. It's like buying jewelry or gemstones, the dealer will always have the upper hand.

Buy & enjoy, but FFS don't bank your pension on your skills against the experts!

But, hey it's your money & faint hearts & fair ladies etc etc. So suit yourself, but don't expect sympathy if it all goes tits uppermost

[marisca]

A better bet is buying a barrel from your favourite distillery and bottling it yourself. You probably need to go into this kind of deal with a few friends - just in case the value doesn't escalate and you have to drink it all.
Here's one most of you won't have experienced - whiskey?

[marisca]

To Marisca: Is a Scot seriously trying to sell an Englishman a barrel of 3yo ENGLISH whiskey? I had to check the date on the calendar!!

Serious? Moi? Someone's got to buy it if it is going to survive and who better than an englishman, 'cos I can't see the Scots being enthusiastic.

[Gordonmc]

Slightly off the Glasgow-Cumbrae route but I often use http://www.robbiesdrams.com/main.asp which is in Ayr.
A digression, but somewhere in the Lochranza distillery there is a barrel of the first distilling with my name on it. I paid £400 for a bond when Hall Currie was raising investment money and needless to say, I lost the paperwork in the intervening years.
Supermarkets occasionally come away with some suprises. I bought a Springbank 15 for £18 from a new branch of Sainsbury... I had gone in for Laphroaig Quarter Cask they were selling for less than a ten year old. Needless to say they were sold out of that gem.

[Aja]

I have a nice bottle of Glenrothes 1994 - it will be drunk and enjoyed though......

Cheers!

Donald

[So_Sage_of_Lorne]

Not quite on your route but, I always enjoyed a trip to Constantine Stores near Falmouth, I notice they now have a web site which may be worth a look. here:http://www.drinkfinder.co.uk/whisky.htm ... ur=101-102

[Nick]

Ah yes. The Loch Dhu. We pished one of those away on Silkie one night in Dunstaffnage. It was a bit of a joke at the time.

You rated it so lowly that you didn't even finish the cratur and Silkie and I were forced to polish it off later in Balvicar. I definitely preferred it to my own urine.

[Silkie]

Ah yes. The Loch Dhu. We pished one of those away on Silkie one night in Dunstaffnage. It was a bit of a joke at the time.

Ah' mind it fine - well, sort of.

I still can't quite believe you brought such an expensive dram and a litre to boot. With a few more bottles like that you could have bought a Hurley 22 rather than just spending a weekend on one.

We must do it again some time.

[Silkie]

We broached the black stuff on the first night (ISTR rushing into the cockpit to chuck into Balvicar Bay after my first sip although this may not have been entirely unrelated to my consumption in the interval between your ETA of 1930 and your arrival at 2259) and spent the rest of the weekend proffering whatever more conventional malt I had aboard at the time.

I did develop a liking for it later (this may be putting it a little too strongly) and distinctly remember declining to allow the bottle to be drained Chez Nick so that I could have a taste for another occasion.

[Pete Cooper]

There is another place in Alexandria called rather imaginatively 'The Whisky Shop' - it's in Antartex village - I suspect it will have the same problem as my first link though.

[DaveS]

Another possibility is this place in Glasgow: http://www.tamsdrams.com/index.php?opti ... 1&Itemid=4

I've not used it myself, but there's an interesting interview on this site: http://www.ralfy.com/

[Arghiro]

Another possibility is this place in Glasgow: http://www.tamsdrams.com/index.php?opti ... 1&Itemid=4

I've not used it myself, but there's an interesting interview on this site: http://www.ralfy.com/

Looks like a fun place to go. Unusual stock, quite quirky.
I think I will import Mrs FC for that trip.

That's a neat trick, you're angling for birthday treats aren't you!