Norther Border Collection / CC 40yo

Still no Lot40 CS available online. But guess where there are about 24 of them? Yup, you guessed it, 2 Toronto stores. Shocking. I wonder if anyone predicted this? Oh, wait a minute...

@OdysseusUnbound I just called the North York store that has it... they're not holding it for anyone. It's about 20 min from my home but by the time I'm done my work I am positive it will be gone.

It's 50 minutes after opening and the website shows 2 out of the original 12 remaining...

@OdysseusUnbound as a diligent student of history you know that from the beginnings of human history that the boonies have always been starved of resources in favour of the major cities. It's just the manifestation of self-centeredness of those in political power who reside in and rule from those cities. They "feed" themselves first. I am sure that no one really expects that to change, so long as we have big cities which are the centers of political and economic control. It's a local thing, though. No one outside of Canada thinks of Toronto as the center of the known universe...or thinks much about Toronto at all...unless he/she has friends, family, or memories there.

Your uproar and indignation now over the handling of the premium whisky release is what will change things in the future. Looks like you will go to a lottery, next year or the year afterwards. My saying that I hoped it wouldn't come to a lottery was more a hope that quantities would work out satisfactorily without it, but it appears that that is not going to happen.

@Victor If the stores had stuck to the "one bottle per customer per visit" rule, then that would be fine. But this complete lack of consistency tells me that either a) LCBO store managers are incompetent or b) the messaging was not communicated properly to the stores. If I were Tish (the CC Brand Ambassador) I'd be seriously pissed. This could reflect very badly on both the Canadian Club and Corby's brands.

@talexander I agree. If supplies are that limited then they should be adhering to a strict one to a customer rule. Allowing someone to reserve 6 is ridiculous; allowing store clerks to snap up already short supplies (possibly for re-sale) is even worse.

@BlueNote I imagine re-selling on the black market (and by some LCBO employees) is almost a given. I haven't checked Craigslist but I bet some are already on there.

I hereby rescind all my angry outbursts. HelloLCBO has answered my fifth complaint. They understand my frustration. The ONLY reason Toronto is getting the NBCRR first is because they are closer to the distribution centers. I feel much better. Unfortunately, whether this is incompetence or straight-up corruption is irrelevant. Ontarians have no other recourse than to buy from the KGBO. What a f-cking joke. I'll focus my hopes and dreams on my next bottle, which I'm 99.9% sure will be a reasonably-priced bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail.

@OdysseusUnbound I hate to see you NOT rescinding your anger...

Was in an LCBO store doing an exchange (more about that on another thread) and apparently they got 24 bottles of the Lot 40 CS (reliable employee I've met before) earlier - she didn't specify when - and they were sold before the inventory was on the internet.

You just can't compete with that.

I'm out. I have 2 Lot 40 CS in Calgary and happy to open and share with anyone who got none, once it is safely home.

If I come across some when casually checking I will get it. I will obviously think of my friends if I do find access, but as @jayrain posted elsewhere, I'm not running around grasping at straws. Sometimes that's fun... Got some cool stuff for me and others that way. But this isn't and I've got too much on my non-whisky plate to deal with the most annoying roll-out in history.

I did get to try the Little Trinity at SOT. Would have been nice to have a bottle, but oh well...

@talexander Do I even need to add words to these photos?

and...

@Nozinan Yep. Well, I'm still searching for my CC40. If I get one, I will open it in your presence!

@Nozinan I emailed the LCBO several times, but I also emailed the Corby rep who told me the Province-wide release was OCT 8. I realize it’s kind of out of their control, but it still reflects badly on their brand and I told him so. I keep thinking “it’s only whisky, it’s not that big a deal”, but I hate being mislead. And I despise incompetence. And I’m really not a fan of Toronto

@OdysseusUnbound I'm not a fan of Toronto. I like Montreal better, Kingston, London, Stratford, Sault St Marie, Vancouver and maybe Calgary.

But I live here. My mother lives here. I have the best job I could ever want and I can't have it anywhere else. So I tolerate Toronto.

Plus I am NEVER moving my whisky collection again!

So come to Toronto and help me drink it!

@Nozinan I love Montreal. I tried to convince my wife to move there years ago, but teachers simply get paid better here in Ontario. I’m somewhat facetious about hating Toronto. It’s not so bad (Letterkenny reference anyone?), it’s the citiots that end up in cottage country during the summer who drive me nuts. You know, the ones who take up 4 parking spaces with their BMW of Toronto or Lexus of Oakville bumper stickered cars, run in to the little general store and proceed to berate the 14 year old cashier for not having vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, non-GMO, Organic, free range, Paleo, coconut ice “cream”? Yeah, that’s what I deal with all summer.

@OdysseusUnbound Well my experience of Montreal was as a child, so PSBGM, Orange Julep. Lafleur's, Agrignon Park. Les Expos....

Ah, nostalgia...

Of course there is the SAQ. I found some wine there once that I couldn't get in Ontario (it sold out in a flash). now with 2 kids I don't need wine, I have plenty of WHINE...

@OdysseusUnbound, I betcha don't suffer from that malaise when you get back home for a visit. A hardrock town don't put up with none o' that tofu sprinkled sh*t.

@Nozinan, Awwwe, come on! Your last move was marked by a tribute to 12 year old whisky because the last time you moved into that house you were a 12 YO. I could tolerate one more move, perhaps when your children are in the 18 - 25 YO range

@paddockjudge Sorry to disappoint you. As much as I appreciated your help I've already chosen my next movers:

benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/Home.aspx/

Please feel free to "remove" any of my liquid assets that my kids don't want.

@paddockjudge There are a growing number of new-age woo-peddlers in Sudbury, but it’s still a pretty working-class town. And my roots, like many French-Canadians are firmly working class. Several generations of my family were miners, and I grew up in a very no-nonsense environment. I still live by my late grandfather’s maxim (which I’ve slightly adapted for whisky instead of beer):

There are no bad whiskies, only some that are better than others

More fuel to the fire. Back when no one cared about Canadian whisky bottles sat on the shelves collecting dust. This release is now getting [url=malt-review.com/2017/11/…] traction across the pond[url], if supply is limited as has been discussed extensively in this thread, a Pappy-like frenzy may be developing

@65glenfarclas So much for exclusive release within Canada

This reminds me a little of Amrut's first release of Greedy Angels. 144 bottles from 2 casks distributed worldwide, woefully inadequate for the market.

@Nozinan There are a lot of things to complain about in Toronto - but I think it's the best city in the world to live in.

@talexander I can accept that... if you ignore transit and the Ford family. And the LCBO.

CC 40 free tasting @ LCBO popup from 5-9 pm in Toronto tonight.

@talexander I guess it depends how you define city. I’d put my hometown of Sudbury (pop. 165 000) ahead of Toronto, and I’d put Montreal ahead of Toronto. But that’s just me.

Montreal has been in decline since 1977.

@Nozinan , did you want them to be an exclusive release within Canada?

@MadSingleMalt if there are only 2000 bottles of each, yes.