2017 Diageo Special Releases

OK, let's all buy our lottery tickets...

@Nozinan, I'm in for tickets. Will you pick them up? Lottomax and 649? Let me know. I can pick them up.

I was thinking of getting about a dozen bottles of the Port Dundas then climbing on my dragon and flying back to Westeros with Daenerys Targaryen....(I mean, if we're living in fantasy-land why not go all-out?)

If I win the lottery I will try to get a number of Broras, Port Ellens, Caol Ilas and Lagavulins.

One can dream....

@Nozinan, three-years-ago-whisky-@Nozinan would not know you now.

@Victor I disagree - three years ago I had already met you, @paddockjudge and @talexander, and @thecyclingyogi. When it comes to the Scotch selections I think I would have made the same or similar ones.

However, at this time 3 years ago just before SOT I had only tasted 2, maybe 3 bourbons and my Canadian repertoire was very minimal.

Definitely the Laga 12 - but one day I hope to spring for a Brora (my 1st!) and a Port Ellen (my 3rd!)

I think I've said before that this lineup could just as easily be the random new IBs at a well-stocked liquor store. Nobody would care, and the prices would be 1/3.

@MadSingleMalt, you would care.

@MadSingleMalt I don't think so - there are very few if any independent bottlings of Lagavulin, and many of these annual releases - especially the Port Ellens and Broras - and very highly regarded. Yes, they are ridiculously expensive, but I guess that's what the market will bear.

@Victor , well I suppose I would indeed care if my local shop started carrying some 12-year cask strength Lagavulin IBs for $40! Touché.

But a lot of this other stuff is the kind of whisky you'd see collecting dust on a specialist shop's top shelf, even if it was 1/3 of whatever crazy prices Diageo is going to slap on these things. A Blair Athol 23? A Teaninich 17? A Convalmore 32? Replace the OB label with (say) Signatory's scary font, and these sound exactly like those bottles I've been looking past at my local specialist retailer for years.

@MadSingleMalt Good point on those distilleries - yes, I totally see what you are saying. Who knows, maybe on the secondary market the prices will correct? Only time will tell.

My point is just that Diageo use this annual "big bundle of whatever" ruckus to trick us into paying attention to all this random overpriced crap just because it's released alongside the annual Lag 12 and their latest trickles of PE & Brora.

I could go into my local shop (Riley's) and make a list of ten whatevers gathering dust, and it'd be no less impressive that this Diageo stuff.

@talexander You think the prices might go DOWN on the secondary market? I would highly doubt it, unless there is a massive deflation of the bubble concurrently, in which case you might see people returning their bottles in order to buy them more cheaply online...

Wouldn't mind seeing CI CS and Lag 12 available for less...

@Nozinan For some of the lesser desired distilleries in Diageo's release? Yes, that's entirely possible.

@MadSingleMalt The only things gathering dust at my local LCBO (I live in a very small town) are a few bottles of Highland Park 12 and Glenfiddich 18. And the LCBO never does any kind of significant price reduction on anything worthwhile.

We need a sarcasm competition.

@casualtorture sure, that would be productive...

@Nozinan As productive as trying to have an honest, bullshit-free conversation with DOCTOR Nick "Diageo" Morgan?

@Nozinan for the win!

@OdysseusUnbound What's he a doctor of? Has he ever done a colonoscopy?

@BlueNote He has a PhD in history. Now I respect historians. Heck, history was my major during my undergraduate studies. But NONE of my uni profs referred to themselves as DOCTOR. In fact, I had one prof say "I can't prescribe narcotics, so please don't call me doctor"

His Ph.D. was on the history of numbers and how we've run out of them.

@MadSingleMalt Only he'll tell you that they've not run out of whisky stocks, that there's never been a shortage of aged whisky, there never will be a shortage of aged whisky and that Johnnie Walker's offerings are all fantastic....

@OdysseusUnbound

We used to call our pros "professor", not Doctor.

Then I went to Medical school and when I finally made it back to high school I wanted to call all my teachers "Doctor"...

I can, but I won't be writing you any scripts, so don't call me doctor

@Nozinan Not even a script for some Nandrolone Decanoate or some Sustenon 250? Come on, man !! I need some GAINZ !!

@OdysseusUnbound No sustenon, but if your nephrologists recommends nandrolone, in the right context I would consider it...

@Nozinan Hmmmmmm Interesting. Very interesting.

I guess it's a positive to be a historian to be able to come up with all the stories behind the NAS releases..

@Alexsweden History is written by the winners.