Hey P1M time to sell off a few kilts.

[McMurdo]

Still off, you sure you haven't been drinking any of that?
Here is the link

http://www.cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Cana...70101-sun.html

[SteveB]

I have had no problems with the link. It works fine for us linux/mozilla types. It may be a MicroShaft Xpect Problems thing.

[McMurdo]

I have had no problems with the link. It works fine for us linux/mozilla types. It may be a MicroShaft Xpect Problems thing.

But I am one of those Mozilla types

[Livingston]

IE7 has no problem with the link Too bad it doesn't come with a bottle of 50yo single malt.

[ccga3359]

Well here is the article then:

$25,000 bottle of Scotch for sale

By DAVE BREAKENRIDGE -- Sun Media

The Calgary Sun




Malt Master Blender David Stewart visits Calgary for Special Tasting of 50 Year Old Whisky Valued at $25,000. (SUN MEDIA/Jack Cusano)

Wanted: top-notch Scotch-lovers with $25,000 burning holes in their pockets.

The world's most expensive scotch, the Glenfiddich 50-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch, is up for sale in Calgary, but supplies are very limited.

Calgary was chosen as the retail city for the last two bottles of the deep-caramel, smoky and slightly spicy whisky, which attests to the market of high-end collectors in Cowtown, said Todd McDonald, director of wine and spirits for Peter Mielzynski Agency, Canada's largest wine and spirit importer.

"These collectors are very well-off, and likely have no intention of actually drinking it," he said of the $25,000-a-bottle spirit. "With these being the last two bottles, they'll be gone by the end of April, I guarantee it."

David Stewart, malt master blender for Glenfiddich, who flew in from Scotland for the gala unveiling in Calgary yesterday, said while its rarity makes it a collector's item, the whisky's complexity makes it special.

"It's a unique whisky," said Stewart, adding it's rare for a scotch of this vintage to retain its alcohol content and not be overpowered by the flavour of the oak casks.


"It's very different from today's Glenfiddich -- it's got some sweetness and fruitiness, and it's got that dried fruits note on the taste."

The event garnered interest from major liquor retailers in Calgary, including Willow Park Wines & Spirits and Kensington Wine Market.

Andrew Ferguson with Kensington Wine Market said he figures he already might have a client with great interest in obtaining a bottle.

While the $25,000 price tag may be steep, it pales in comparison to what the whisky sold for at auction in 1992 -- $79,552, garnering it a place in the 2000 edition Guinness Book of World Records.

The whisky was distilled between 1937 and 1939 by William Grant & Sons Ltd., which laid down nine casks of Glenfiddich spirit honouring each of Grant's nine children.

Just 500 bottles were produced when the casks were bottled in 1991.

In addition to the two full-size bottles, there are 30 miniatures, also considered collectors items, and which retail for $1,800 apiece.