I don't know why you lot complain about the price* of Granny R's various rootveg-based distillations. Just saw the attached bill for whisky from a hotel in Braemar. Someone's making a fortune - the Balvenie 50yo is only £32k for a whole bottle. Thoughts @macanultaigh.bsky.social ? * and taste - ThreadSky

rootvegserf.bsky.social • 35 days ago

I don't know why you lot complain about the price* of Granny R's various rootveg-based distillations. Just saw the attached bill for whisky from a hotel in Braemar. Someone's making a fortune - the Balvenie 50yo is only £32k for a whole bottle. Thoughts @macanultaigh.bsky.social ?

* and taste

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faradayinkernow.bsky.social•35 days ago

Oof...assume this was Berties Bar at the Fife Arms then.
https://thefifearms.com/eat-drink/berties-bar/

Makes Rooty's 2 for the price of 5 offers look like selfless charity.

rootvegserf.bsky.social•35 days ago

It was. What is disgusting is that they probably bought that Balvenie a few years ago when it was only £10k a bottle.

But it gives me an idea for gin tasting evenings at þNCB. I'll ask Granny R to rustle up some 20, 30 and 50 yo samples ASAP.

faradayinkernow.bsky.social•34 days ago

And what is even more appalling is that there are folk who can afford to think nothing of paying such outrageous prices. Still, bet that's nothing compared to Musk's weekly ketamine bill.

hereward-the-woke.bsky.social•35 days ago

Quite a party that was!!

macanultaigh.bsky.social•35 days ago

I am also intrigued by Chicken Cock Prohibition. I mean, I have a general prohibition on chicken cock, and that price is in itself prohibitive, but still.

rootvegserf.bsky.social•35 days ago

I can understand a 500% markup on Bells in a pub - staff costs, heating, rent etc, but 500% markup on a whisky that costs £32k/bottle seems excessive.

Most expensive whisky I bought was a 40yo Glent Grant that I bought on my 40th birthday (1996) - £80. Now costs over £2000!

macanultaigh.bsky.social•35 days ago

And happy birthday for 1996

rootvegserf.bsky.social•35 days ago

I thought I was very controlled. I drank the first measure on my 40th birthday, and the last on my 50th.

macanultaigh.bsky.social•35 days ago

Exceptionally so! I was given a bottle of Green Spot on my fortieth: it didn't make into my 42st.

rootvegserf.bsky.social•35 days ago

Sadly, I won't be able to buy a whisky from 1956 for my 70th. I'm very fond of Linkwood, and a bottle of the 1956 is now around £20,000.

Maybe if the lottery comes up.

macanultaigh.bsky.social•35 days ago

The mark up is astonishing and unjustifiable.
I mean, there's the investment, the keeping it, risk of theft, and do on, but the scale is excessive.
On the other hand, rich tourists paying that is its own justification.
Not that I think there was any proportionate redistribution of wealth, obvs.

rootvegserf.bsky.social•35 days ago

I wondered about that. I looked it up on one of the big sales sites and no mention of it. It may be something that Granny McR rustles up in the back room for idiot tourists.

It was a party of 15, who each spent £10k on whisky. Tell me again why an asset tax on the very rich isn't justified?

poisonousratbag.bsky.social•35 days ago

Now I’ve spent a penny or three on fine whisky over the years but this is batshit. The bounty of the earth is finite.

dbrown101.bsky.social•34 days ago

My palette isn'tgood enough or my wallet deep enough to enjoy whiskies like those, but I have drunk some that cost up to high 3 figures for a bottle.

But spending like that just makes me wonder about the lack of imagination of the person paying.

rootvegserf.bsky.social•34 days ago

And lack of any form of moral compass as well. What sort of thought process says "Ooh, I'll spend £4500 on a dram of insanely over-priced whisky that probably I won't really appreciate, instead of buying a decent bottle of something for £200 and donating £4300 to charity"