Talisker 18 for $79.99

Thanks for sharing! They have some great price on a few items. Let us know who it works out.

I see Booker's for $44.99. With shipping, 2 bottles would be over thirty dollars less than it would cost me to drive to a LCBO and pick it up. But of course, there are none at the KGBO.

A'Bunadh is a good price too, but they don't specify the batch.

I will ask my Florida friend if he wants a bottle too. Maybe I'll order three. Shipping increases by 2 dollars for every additional bottle so it gets even cheaper ...

Not to mention Ardbeg Corryvreckan for 80 dollars. It's 180 here when available!

CURSES!!!!!!!!!!! The online ordering requires the billing address to be in the US! darn it!

I will have to try to order tomorrow by phone and see if they will take my credit card info over the phone. My "mule" in Florida has agreed to receive and store my bottles (and one for himself) and bring them over, one at a time (he still has 2 Bladnochs pending).

What a letdown.

nice price....but that's some pricey shipping. anyone want to go in a few bottles? lol

There shipping is very pricey for just a few bottles but if you buy 6 or more it is very reasonable compared to other sites. As I said, I bought 12 so shipping worked out to about $3/bottle.

@asmazda , no doubt it's less painful when ordering a dozen or so. Not sure I can go that deep...but even at ~$93/bottle if I were to purchase 2, that's still a good bit better than I've seen Talisker 18 go for pretty much everywhere else.

@Nozinan, a $180 for the Corry!?...

... The LCBO truly disgusts me... Very happy I don't have to deal with that!

@Nozinan are beer and cigarette prices that bad up your way as well (I'm a non smoker, but courious)? I can only assume that the prices are that high to keep people from doing things that are bad for their health due to the way the Candian health care system is set up. Or is it just greed?

I'd rather pay those sin taxes than pay American healthcare costs and insurance premiums.

So I called them up. They agreed to take my order over the phone but give me Internet prices. Hurrah!

My Florida mule wanted a bottle of Booker's so I ordered 4 (3 for me) ad a bottle of the Corry (rounds out my collection of the Ardbeg tifects (10 and Uiggy). Total price, including $30.31 shipping, is $171.94 LESS than it would all have cost me at the LCBO.

And although it may take him a year or so to get it all to me, he'll deliver faster than I can drink it, I'm sure.

And after the exchange rate, I've saved enough for 2 bottles of A'Bunadh (or three outside of Ontario).

I looked up a couple of other US online retailers and I have to say the lowest were at this site. So a BIG thumbs up to @asmazda, and thanks for sharing the news.

@Nozinan

I meant Ardbeg Trifecta...I must have been too excited to type.

Talisker 18 for €56,- is unimaginable here in Holland...

@Bigtuna, yes, tobacco is also highly taxed in Canada. The last time I went home I paid about $12 for a package of cigarettes in Ontario (I am occasionally a social smoker). The official justification for high taxes on alcohol and tobacco that is often given, is that we are taxed this way because of our (more or less) 100% health care coverage provided by the national health insurance system.

On the surface this certainly makes sense. Personally, I have no problem with taxing alcohol and tobacco in order to continue funding a health system like the one we have in Canada, one of the best in the world I believe. However, I take issue with extreme over-taxation, which is quite evident when we see prices upwards of $200 for a standard release whisky, and around $15 for a package of 25 cigarettes. I take issue with this because the reality is that those tax dollars are not only used to maintain an excellent health system, quality public education and free national highways. Unfortunately, that money is also used to fund asinine military expenditures like the purchasing of the horrifically flawed F-35s, and the beefing up of a Canadian military to serve in the expansion of the American (or more accurately corporate) empire.

If our tax dollars were entirely used to better the lives of Canadians than such exorbitant prices would be acceptable. Unfortunately though you have a government who instead, makes claims of a social security system which is running out of money and allows universities to increase tuition costs to even higher, more ridiculous rates.

@Nozinan, reached out to them and learned the a'bunadh is batch 46. That one seems to get mixed reviews so I'm not sure about pulling the trigger.

@CanadianNinja...Ardbeg in Ontario is a particularly bad situation...someone somewhere is cashing in on the Ardbeg hysteria. 10/Oogie/Cory are $100/165/182 where the same in Michigan are about 60/75/85, last time I checked. Ardbeg is one of the few where bottle prices are double the equivalent in price compared to Michigan/Binny's (Chicago area chain).

However, the LCBO's allotments keep selling out, so I can't fully begrudge the situation...I just move on to considering the next bottle. There are a few distilleries (Bowmore, Auchentoshan, Glenfarclas) where pricing is pretty comparable to the nearby US retailers...and Canada gets Glenfarclas 15!! :)

It seems that if anybody can find Talisker 18 in the US for

@broadwayblue

I asked them as well, and passed it up. But I did exchange a 36 for a 46 at the LCBO. Tried the 36, didn't want a spare.

Looks like my order arrived at my Florida friend's. I have enough Booker's (once he brings it) for a half a decade....

Do we know if this website will ship to Washington state? If so, I see some orders in my future...

@HeartlessNinny, yes, they do.

My order arrived quickly and intact. Time to start enjoying some Talisker!

@PeatyZealot True, but they are cheaper in Germany, might be worth crossing the border or ordering from a online shop alexanderandjames.de/de/talisker/…

@Pandemonium, that's a nice website. Too bad they don't ship to the States.

Speaking of which, and related to our discussion of Talisker, anyone know the most affordable way to get a bottle of 57 N? Last time I traveled internationally I looked for it in Duty Free, but sadly came up empty.

I'm not aware of any online merchant/Website in the USA that sells Talisker 57 North.

This is a chain (4 locations) in my home town of St. Louis. I never knew how lucky we had it price wise, until I started shopping liquor stores when visiting other cities!

I think one of the reasons the prices are so good here, is there is another chain (Randalls/4 locations) a large well established wine and whisky speciality store (The Wine Merchant) and a local mega-sized super store (Lukas Liquors), that are also competitive in their pricing.

This is why states with licenced stores are bad news for whisky lovers. No competition! Those states also tend to have higher sin taxes!

Steal of a deal TBS

@broadwayblue...Last July, flying from Toronto to San Francisco, the duty free in Toronto had Talisker 57N for Can$90 (way better than the $175 :O that the LCBO is charging).