On a £350 budget what bottle would you buy?

Glenfarclas 1976 Family Cask would have to be on my personal shortlist as it is my 'birth year bottle' and the distillery is generally well regarded (I love the 15 that is in my cabinet currently!)

Since you seem to like Islay whiskies, I'd pick Brora 30 years old now that it's still available for £ 350. Not Islay, but peated and wonderfully unique.

Any in the Glenfarclas Family Cask Series...

A Port Ellen (whichever one floats my boat at the time), 30 year old Brora, 30 year old Talisker, One of the older Glenfarclas or Macallans. Maybe a 30 year old Highland Park, or an older Glenmorangie. So many choices :D I think if I had £350 I might use that considerable cash in order to put my hands on one of the Kavalan Taiwan whiskies or an older Japanese whisky. So many choices!!!! ARH!!!!

I would find that 40 year old Bowmore by Signatory.

That is the equivalent of about $560 Can. I would never spend that amount of money on one bottle of whisky. If I had that budget I would buy HP18, Lagavulin 16, Talisker 18, Ardbeg Uigeadail, Laphroiaig 18 and Glenfarclas 15 and I would be drinking very good stuff for a lot longer than you. And your whisky money goes a lot further than ours. You could buy one very expensive Brora or Port Ellen, but the stuff is stupidly overpriced and then you might find yourself reluctant to actually drink it and watch it disappear. Think about spreading the money around a bit, there are plenty of very good, reasonably priced whiskies out there.

Single bottle? Brora 30. Also look into a Rosebank. I've never had one but hope to someday.

Port Ellen

@BlueNote While I agree with you that there are ALOT of awesome bottles that you can pick up for that kind of money there is always the possibility that the price tag condition has the stipulation of just the one bottle. When my wife said she'd buy me any bottle of whisky at that price range (It was a 30 yr old Port Ellen) the sole stipulation was that I couldn't choose a variety of bottles as she didn't want to deal with the hassle of picking up 4 or 5 bottles. Same thing with my brother when he bought me a bottle for my birthday (A 21 yr old Rosebank).

I would have loved to grab many of those bottles that you listed, but then I could have only got just one :D I personally figured if I could only have 1 it'd be an insane overpriced once in a lifetime one :D. My personal cap is sitting at $250 for those REALLY high end cant get anywhere else once every few years kinda bottles. Which has me staring at the Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Straight Rye. (Yummy)

Please don't get me wrong my friend as I'm not disagreeing with you, I don't think either of the bottles that were purchased for me will taste/be worth as much as was paid, but when someone says get something crazy I'm happy to oblige on their dime :D

Quite right @SquidgyAsh. I failed to take note of the single bottle stipulation in the original post by GlenS. Given that condition, I too would go for a special Brora or Port Ellen and maybe have one dram per year for 10 years. Cheers.

@SquidgyAsh and all - thanks for the comments and tips! I failed to mention this was a birthday present for my brother (in which a number of us are pooling resources and we wanting to buy a fairly high end expression). After a few arguments we decided on the 40 year old Mortlach from Gordon & Macphail (the 1971 bottling released earlier this year). Mortlach is a favourite of his so fingers crossed it's a winner! Thanks all.

All I can say is .....Niiiiiice!

@SquidgyAsh - Presumably! I've only ever tried the 15 year old Mortlach but I've heard it ages well and the colour looks good...... Hopefully I'll get a try myself :-D