I paid over $300.00 for a bottle of whiskey for my Brother-in-Law for a Christmas present. Cannot for the life of me remember the name of it, but it came in a blue box.
What is the most you ever paid for..,
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For some reason I just have never liked Liquor. I like a light beer, as in Bud Light. The guys I work with are both beer and liquor snobs. They peer over their designer beers or little scotch snifters with a single small cube disgusted by my tastes. Honestly, I wish I liked the stuff so I wouldn't have to listen to it, but I don't and I won't fake it. When we go to places that are too "good" to serve Bud, I order Amstel light. So, I think the most I have ever paid is 10 bucks at a concert. At this point in my life, if I liked it I would buy what I want.
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7shooter
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My two favorites are Jim Beam and Jameson around $20.
Not much more than $100/bottle, and for the Woodford Reserve Master Blends, Willett Estate 4 Year, and a Knob Creek 2001LE. Like others have said, there’s just too many really good bourbons in the sub-100 range to bother with expensive ones.
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$75 - 1996 Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia , still unopened
I paid $245.00 or there abouts for a Johnnie Walker Blue in Dallas
in 2010. It was my oldest daughters wedding and that is what my dad asked for. So that's what he gets. I did not much care for it and drank my Dalmore. I have never cared much for the JW offerings.
I will on occasion, if the price is not too awfully high, have a 25 year old McAllan. It's like necter of the gods.
in 2010. It was my oldest daughters wedding and that is what my dad asked for. So that's what he gets. I did not much care for it and drank my Dalmore. I have never cared much for the JW offerings.
I will on occasion, if the price is not too awfully high, have a 25 year old McAllan. It's like necter of the gods.
I GOT this one...I paid 8 extra months in the U.S. Army for a fifth of Jack Daniels No. 7...To this day the smell of corn mash whiskey near turns my stomach. It could have been much worse, at least I got my choice of duty station and a 30 day leave.
about 200 bucks for a single bottle of Peerless single cask select...
dropped over a grand at various distilleries along the bourbon trail in 2019... but that is a lifetime supply for me and a few good friends..
I just got an email from Woodford Reserve for a virtual tasting onthe first Saturday in May since the Derby was postponed... I think I may have spent too much in Kentucky.... lol
dropped over a grand at various distilleries along the bourbon trail in 2019... but that is a lifetime supply for me and a few good friends..
I just got an email from Woodford Reserve for a virtual tasting onthe first Saturday in May since the Derby was postponed... I think I may have spent too much in Kentucky.... lol
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Absalom
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The distilleries are all good at personalized marketing.
We toured Kentucky a few years back, with distillery tours of course, and the first birthday card I got the next year was from Buffalo Trace
Bit over $100 a bottle for Don Julio 1942 Tequila. Been tough to find lately though.
I'm about the same distance from Louisville as I am Bardstown here in Kentucky, and I've never have done the Bourbon Trail thing. The wife doesn't drink at all due to stomach issues and I pretty much limit myself to a snort of scotch every evening.
I think the most I've ever paid for a bottle was around $50 bucks, and I decided that I'm fine with Dewars at a tick over $20 bucks. I like a cold beer on a hot day after mowing though. Nothing like the nearly case of beer a day habit I once had, when I was a younger man.
Maybe I just picked the wrong scotch to "go big on" that time.
I think the most I've ever paid for a bottle was around $50 bucks, and I decided that I'm fine with Dewars at a tick over $20 bucks. I like a cold beer on a hot day after mowing though. Nothing like the nearly case of beer a day habit I once had, when I was a younger man.
Maybe I just picked the wrong scotch to "go big on" that time.
About forty years ago I had a friend who was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I once asked him why art collectors would spend such enormous sums on paintings by great artists when one could buy an excellent reproduction for so much less. Most people could never tell the difference anyway. Why spend, say a million bucks or whatever on a Picasso when you could buy an excellent reproduction for, say, a couple of hundred, if not far less?
He thought about it for a bit, and then asked me, “Can you tell the difference between a really good scotch and a cheap one?” I said that I could.
He said, “Well, some people are like that with great art. They can tell the difference between an original and a good copy. And it matters to them.”
So, for us, as gun enthusiasts, it’s probably similar to why some of us are willing to spend so much for certain firearms. For people who are not into guns, or dislike them, cheap or expensive — a registered magnum or... take your pick — it’s just another gun...
Even among us gun lovers, some of us think spending a couple of thousand or more on one gun is just ostentatious. Others love expensive guns so much they’ll subsist on instant noodles, scrimp and save, in order to buy them.
Of course, wealthy people just buy whatever they want. Pretty much, anyway.
And, to be fair, I also think it true that conspicuous consumption is also a driver for some of the more foolish among us, whether rich or not.
(Personally, if I’m buying for me, I tend to go with inexpensive liquors, primarily rye. My opinion of myself is already unreasonably high. I don’t need to inflate it further by buying expensive liquor!
)Bought a bottle of Dom Perignon for $100 for our 25th wedding anniversary 14 years ago. Then another the next year for $120. It was very good but thew wife and I are happy with a $10 bottle of Merlot. The difference leaves more to spend on good steaks for the grill.
John
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Glad to see someone else who appreciates vintage American coinage.
See, and I look at it exactly the other way round:
I started getting out of buying more guns and more into buying good whisky when I got wise enough to realize that living was more important than having. Better to buy experiences than more stuff that you can’t take with you
I seem to have developed a knack for marrying the two! I drink really good bourbon then about three days later, **POOF* like, by magic, another SW arrives or, a new email stating, "Thanks for your purchase MOD34, please send payment and FFL details to..."
Best tequila I've ever tasted, Codigo 1530 Origen Extra Anejo, $300 for a 3/4 liter bottle. Bought it as a gathering gift for a group of friends that are very special to me.
Angel's Envy - Serious Envy Cask Strength Bourbon. Last two bottles I found were in the same liquor store last week. That NEVER happens. The two I bought last week were 2019's bottling and came in at 126.4 proof. Bought one for myself and the other is going to be a BD present. With sales tax they were just shy of $250 each.
Angel's Envy - Serious Envy Cask Strength Bourbon. Last two bottles I found were in the same liquor store last week. That NEVER happens. The two I bought last week were 2019's bottling and came in at 126.4 proof. Bought one for myself and the other is going to be a BD present. With sales tax they were just shy of $250 each.
