Bottles You Have Repurchased the Most

My earliest recollection of a re-buy was Aberlour A'Bunadh, batch 33. I was so overwhelmed with how good it was. Now I have a many year supply of it (various batches).

Another that was bought shortly after opening one was Bruichladdich PEAT. I had opened that one and the laddie classic around the same time in 2011. Sadly, I didn't start to really appreciate the Laddie Classic until it was no longer available.

Ardbeg Ten. I almost fell in love immediately. It can be bought easily

Ardbeg Ten for me too, my go to dram.

Although I tasted Corryvreckan last week on the distillery tour and picked up a bottle. Only time will tell if it topples the mighty Ten for me!

Benromach 10, Ardbeg 10 and Springbank 10. The Ben 10 is possibly the best vfm scotch going at the minute.

I've also had a fair few bottles of HP 12 and OP 12 but mainly due to them being cheap as chips quite often in the UK.

Laphroaig 10, QC and 18 (sadly no longer available); Ardbeg 10 and Uigeadail; Lagavulin 16; Springbank 10 and HP 12. I have had at least 6 of each of these and some as many as a dozen or more times.

The earliest repurchases made in my youth were bought some time ago and wouldn't garner a lot of interest from Connosr members, well maybe they would....

Since joining Connosr I've revisited a few on a regular basis, but the one that comes to mind as the most frequent single-bottle purchase is that of Wiser's Legacy.

Legacy was launched in 2010 at $85 per bottle. A brilliant rye forward expression and one that seemed to evaporate far too quickly. In 2011 the price dropped to $50. My immediate fear was that this spectacular whisky was about to be discontinued. I found myself buying one or two per month and visiting those bottles often. Eventually I eased off the Legacy, it was recently discontinued. I feel singlehandedly responsible for the demise of Wiser's Legacy.... but not before I tucked away a couple.

Ardbeg Uigeadail no contest. Every time when I walk through DF store if nothing else is interesting I just grab a bottle of Uigeadail, as it seems everywhere and quality has been mostly consistent. I have a genuine fear that Ardbeg will run out of their old stock to make Uigeadail / Corryvreckan / TEN, and then they will cheat market with all the designer stuff.

@Webb I think you just articulated everybody's worst fear.

@paddockjudge You are a very Wiser man. Wiser than anyone I know.

@paddockjudge where are the rest of your Legacy bottles?

This is an interesting topic because of the various reasons we all might have, and the conditions (certain type of reasons) that might influence us to buy more than just a couple of bottles of a whisky. I am sure some (or maybe many) of you know of my "healthy" obsession with acquiring the Glenlivet 16yo Nadurra.

The obvious reason we would buy multiple bottles we enjoy the dram. I really want to focus on two "conditional" reasons.

1. A whisky we really enjoy has been or will be discontinued. (I am sure there are some Connosrs who have stocked up on the Old Pulteney 17 and 21yos.)

2. A whisk is readily available, but not in my area. (Even though it is a nice (not wonderful) dram, I did buy three bottles of Chivas 12yo Mizunara. When I got it was only available in Japan; however, that could have changed. Anyway, I didn't know when I was going to get back to Japan, so I thought it was an enjoyable dram, and a bit of a novelty I might as well get a few bottles. Sadly, my fourth bottle broke on my way back home, poor packing on my part. One more thing, most of my 12yo Yamazaki, 4 of the 5 bottles came from Japan.)

3. The whisky I enjoy is slightly/somewhat marked down, and I don't want to pass up this opportunity.

   I am sure many of you can come up with more conditions that will influence us to buy multiple bottles of a particular whisky.

   If some of you haven't read my previous posts about my obsession (remember it is a healthy obsession) for the 16yo Nadurra. I have 11 bottles in storage in my house, while a friend of mine (after picking up two more a little while ago) is holding 9 bottles for me.

   So, once I get them I will try to post a photo just as @paddockjudge did of all of those lovely Wisers Legacy.

@paddockjudge is that picture taken in a liquor store?

@nooch, nope, not a liquor store, that pic is taken in the whisky paddock, uhm, I mean my reference library.

paddockjudge, When see a wonderful collection like that, I realize that one bottle of rye was nothing in the picture of things, and that our mutual friend was kissing up while punching down.

@Jonathan "When I see..."

Johnnie walker green. I've purchased maybe 10-12 bottles over the years. I stocked up when they discontinued it a few years ago. Both to drink myself and as an investment. I watched the price for a bottle rise from the £30 I paid to about £120. I thought I'd wait until it hit £150 a bottle and then sell a couple.

Then they released it!

I'm currently stocking up on OP17. Got 3 bottles at the moment. Hope to get another couple at least before it disappears.

@Wierdo Hence the pitfalls of investing. We have no control over the supply that will be made available in the future, and most people don't differentiate between the original release and later releases.

I forget where I read this but it was a recommendation that you never buy something that you wouldn't want to drink if it doesn't increase or loses value...

@Nozinan Couldn't agree more.

I am happy to drink JW Green (I opened a bottle over the weekend) and I'm happy to drink OP17. Besides which I can't see the price of the OP17 rising that much anyway as they are rumoured to be releasing something between the 12 and the 17 (a 15?) to compensate for the loss of the 17 and they do a (very pricy 25).

Most whiskies that are obviously collectable such as the 22 year old Ardbeg released a couple of years ago have an eye watering RRP to begin with and are snapped up by investors on pre-order anyway.

Stocking up on the whiskies you love is a win-win. If they rise dramatically in price you can make a bit if money and if they don't you've got lots to drink of a whisky you love.

@Wierdo I'm on the hunt for OP 17 too. One open and only one bunkered so far, but it's already over $200 here in Vancouver. What sort of price are you finding in UK? I might take a chance and wait until my next trip over in Sept if the price is much better and there's plenty still around.

@BlueNote Are you in Vancouver too? Just you know short drive to US you can find OP 17 for under $120 at BevMo, better yet OP 21 is "only" US$150-160. I bought 3 of these last time when I had duty free allowance.

Laphroaig 10 and Aberlour A’bunadhunadh are the ones I buy most often closely followed by HP12, Talisker 10 and OP12 for Scotch. WT101, Rare Breed and Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon

@Pete1969 By volume (most of which is still unopened in my cabinet...

Whatever Armstrong Bladnochs I could find

Amrut single cask (Bourbon) and Peated CS

Amrut Original CS

I already said A'Bunadh

Booker's

@Webb I'm close by on the Sunshine Coast. Thanks for the tip, I'll see if my sister in law can find it in Oregon.

Cheers.

@Wierdo - JW Green Label going for £30 at ASDA, Morrisons and on Amazon at the minute . . . I'm considering (with a guilty conscience just for thinking it!)

@RianC The supermarkets... too tempting. Last week I got the Caol Ila DE. At the whisky exchange it was about £74, at Heathrow they have it at £82/litre which they claim is a -£21 offer. And I got mine from Ocado at £49. I do not like the behemoths squeezing out the specialist stores... but then again, hurts to pay almost twice the price for the pleasure of a good chat...

@RikS - I feel for the smaller shops but given the state of the economic side of things who, today, will willingly pay the extra they charge for the same stuff? A bottle of Glenfarclas 105, for example, would have cost me £80 at a local specialist wine and spirits shop - it was £50 online!

@RianC i hear you and agree. I just hate the fact that it's hard these days to find a butcher that know about meat, a monger that knows about fish, or a watchmaker who doesn't suggest "changing battery" on a 60 year old mechanical watch... The old trades of experts and guilds are dying...

@RianC i hear you and agree. I just hate the fact that it's hard these days to find a butcher that know about meat, a monger that knows about fish, or a watchmaker who doesn't suggest "changing battery" on a 60 year old mechanical watch... The old trades of experts and guilds are dying...

@BlueNote OP17 is around £75 a bottle in the UK . It's not available in supermarkets since Tesco got rid of all their stock of OP17 and OP21 but is readily available online at pretty much every online whisky retailer.

@Wierdo pulteney 12 on sale at sainsbury for £25.