Info needed: Rosebank 1989 Signatory

Hi @gazlove, hopefully someone can provide some information about this Rosebank Signatory bottling. Connosr isn't the platform on which to sell this bottle – your best bet is probably one of the auction sites who would be able to give you a steer on the valuation.

FYI – I've updated the title of this discussion to be more descriptive.

I would say it's worth.....

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DRINKING

I know we can't encourage selling here, but I want to reply to a couple ideas above that are worth poking at.

FIRST: @gazlove , Rosebank was closed in 1993, so it's very doubtful that your bottle was "one of the 400 made." It looks like it was just from a single-cask outturn of around 400 bottles. If you knew that, then shame on you (and realize that you're trying to deceive the 0.1% of the population least likely to be deceived here). If you didn't know that, then do your homework before you try to wheel and deal on your old bottle.

SECOND: The sentiment @Nozinan expressed is often the response that we online whisky geeks give to folks hoping to sell a bottle. "Just drink it!" Why is that? Surely some of us have sometimes browsed the no-longer-available-at-retail bottles that are sold at auction. I bet some of us have even (gasp!) bought such bottles. Doesn't everyone who's ever bought such a bottle have someone like gazlove to thank, someone who, either by chance or design, came into possession of a bottle that he'd rather sell than guzzle? Except for jerks who clear shelves and try to immediately flip their bottles, I really don't get all the negativity that usually comes out toward people selling their bottles.

...and I direct that second point to all of us, not @Nozinan in particular.

I note that as I write this, @jeanluc 's helpful response has no lovey-dovey hearts from the community, but Nozinan's has two.

@OI_Jas; good point about the lack of love rendered to @jeanluc on his spot-on comment. So I thought I would take care of that oversight. We all need love from time to time. Or at least a hug.

@Ol_Jas @jeanluc @cherylnifer It's not a competition.

My comment is supported by my position that (if you're a whisky enthusiast) nothing you get for a bottle of unobtainium replaces the experience of drinking it.

I know of a person who died with dozens (or hundreds) of special bottles and I shudder to think that his (distant) family either drank his black bowmore with cola or simply sold off his collection..

In 2014, when I discovered 9 bottles of Mac CS for sale for CA$73 (tax in) when online they were selling for GBP 125, I did clear the shelf (well, I left one), but when I flipped 6 of them they were "sold" at cost.

I hope that if I die with bottles unopened, my children will dispose of the bottles they don't want by giving them to my Connosr friends or selling them at a reasonable cost (like "at cost").

@Nozinan , I wasn't implying that it's a heart competition—rather, that your "just drink it!" response got some backing from others on here, while @jeanluc 's did not. The "just drink it!" response seems to be the consensus, which always confuses me.

Why should anyone "shudder to think" that beneficiaries of a whisky-lover should sell off his collection in an auction? What are they supposed to do instead—develop their palates so they can appreciation those Black Bowmores without cola?

Sure, if the proposition is "drink it before you die" v. "leave it to your unappreciative grandkids," then I can see your point. But what are those unappreciative grandkids supposed to do when they do wind up with some old bottle they're really not interested in? I can tell from conversations here and across the web that this happens a lot, and anyone looking to sell the bottle always gets shat on. Always.

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Let's continue the Black Bowmore example. Put your hand up if you might like to buy one some day. Now where do you think the opportunity to do so might come from?