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    25 grand?? Dang, not even if I was thirsty...

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    Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
    One has to ask, if such a whisky never drunk what good is it?

    You could have coloured water in the bottle and nobody would ever open it to find out. :crap:


    Lawrence: Now, all these wines are very old. I bought them to make sure they were cared for properly.

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    Always wondered about that collecting pass time, I have. Hundred year old tofu is kinda the same sort of issue.

    Why ?

    One of my friends summed it up best for me. "It's whisky, it's for 'drinkin'".

    But not at $1200 a shot it ain't, not for this man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
    One has to ask, if such a whisky never drunk what good is it?

    You could have coloured water in the bottle and nobody would ever open it to find out. :crap:
    I dont' get it either Trefor. Whisky is for drinking. int:
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    If I could afford such a whiskey, I would gather up my best friends, and we would DRINK that tasty rascal!

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    Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
    One has to ask, if such a whisky never drunk what good is it?

    You could have coloured water in the bottle and nobody would ever open it to find out. :crap:
    Exactly.

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    Let's see. One could purchase more than 700 bottles of 12 year old Glenlivet for that price. Not sure the 50 year old is 700 times better than the 12. But then I tend to be a reverse snob.
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    Quote Originally Posted by McFarkus View Post
    Let's see. One could purchase more than 700 bottles of 12 year old Glenlivet for that price. Not sure the 50 year old is 700 times better than the 12. But then I tend to be a reverse snob.
    Depending on how much of the 12 year old you were drinking, it wouldn't really matter.

    25 year old is pretty damn smooth, but even that is dear at the price (I certainly can't afford it, but a friend of the family had some on hand). Maybe 50 year old is twice as good? And therefore justifies being ten times as expensive?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer View Post
    Depending on how much of the 12 year old you were drinking, it wouldn't really matter.

    25 year old is pretty damn smooth, but even that is dear at the price (I certainly can't afford it, but a friend of the family had some on hand). Maybe 50 year old is twice as good? And therefore justifies being ten times as expensive?
    Perhaps the quality improves exponentially, and not geometrically, and thus the price, being directly related to the quality, likewise grows exponentially.

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