I'm scared Dave, will I dream Dave?

That would be HAL from 2001. My favorite film :)

@SquidgyAsh I'm an obsessive collector of 'things', so almost finishing bottles has led me to have many almost dead bottles sat around waiting for occasions 'special' enough to finish them. I've pretty much got over that these days - I ran out of space so had a party, which helped finish many of them, and have a 'living bottle' where I put many of the last drams to create a house blend.

That said I still have a number of special releases and single casks in my cupboard with a rather low level...non-ongoing bottles are still hard for me to finish :)

Running a bottle down is so sad, its like watching a close friend become haggard. The only upside to losing such a close connection is that one can now present the empty bottle decoratively on shelves because sunlight is no longer a factor

RIP Lagavulin 16

@sepsism That is correct my friend! The dram that I had tonight in YOUR honor was Aberlour 10 year old and my very first bottle of Single Malt that I bought since I moved to Australia. Technically speaking my very of whisky since moving to Australia! Btw Sepsism the -1 rating to your comment is from me and my really stupid galaxy phone when I tried to rate you up. Just so you know it was meant to be a +1.

@Cowfish I've heard your leftover bottle idea and I do believe that I'm going to start doing that. Starting with my very last dram of Aberlour 10 yr old.

I'm REALLY glad to know that I'm not the only odd man out here. I mean I feel downhearted when I finish a normal bottle in my collect, but the ones that make me REALLY hesitate is when it's a bottle that's won awards or is a limited edition bottle, at which point I tend to stockpile 4 or 5 bottles for the future when said bottles become scarce.

When opening them, I actualy split all of my bottle in three 250 ml smaller bottles, so I can better control their evolution. I also keep one of the three sealed with wax for good souvenirs in the futur, keeping that nostalia for later.

@CognacFan, wow, that is really a labour-intensive whisky-venerating technique that you use! It will certainly allow you a lot of control. It appears that you intend to make a close and serious study of your whiskies. Bravo.

@SquidgyAsh

Cheers for the honorary dram and buddy add. I haven't had the pleasure of tasting any Aberlour yet but I will no doubt in the future. Were you sipping this while watching 2001? I wonder what the perfect companion Whisky would be to this film? It's kind of epic so a special dram no doubt.

No worries re: the -1, I was thinking wow that was fast haha.

As for getting close to the bottom of bottles, I've had it fairly easy so far (emotionally speaking) as all of my Whiskies to date have been easily replaceable, entry-level expressions. That said I now have a limited edition bottling of a 5 year old Kilchoman (purchased to commemorate the birth of my son in May) which I will no doubt preserve as long as possible. The decanter idea sounds like a good one so I can save some perhaps but will be very sad to see it go eventually.

Cheers.

Thats really a nice idea. But normally I like the original bottles. Alternative you could branch off a certain amount, seal it, and let the rest in the bottle you bought the whisky in. Maybe I will start doing so sometime.

I saw '2001: A Space Odyssey' just last week for the first time. Really enjoyed it! Well, a friend shared his Bruichladdich 20yo with us while watching, maybe that's the reason I liked it...

@sepsism No I wasn't my friend. I was just drinking a little Hogs 3 Bourbon, but I was looking at some of my bottles and how magically they're getting lower and how I was sitting there going "aww I'm gonna miss this guy" and was just curious if I was odd man out haha.

2001 is an epic movie so realistically to do it justice it would need to be an epic dram....maybe an Islay, probably Ardberg Coryvackin. I'm thinking? Or if it was an Aberlour is would need to be an Abundah. I know I'm slaughtering the spelling and I'm sorry. It's the end of a long hard day.

@Victor Thanks for the kind comments. To me whisky is like chocolate, part passion, part culinary chemistry. I find that bottling it this way ables me to see at what stage I prefer it and gives me the chance to recreate this evolution. Also saving a part for later will let me see how I apreciate it then, with my palate beeing more develloped.