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What did you NOT buy and why?

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By g @gfc on 21st Jan 2018, show post

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@dloewen
dloewen replied

Absolutely, I feel the same way. Feeling the sting of missing out on Cairdeas again.

3 years ago 1Who liked this?

@OdysseusUnbound

@dloewen I emailed HelloLCBO about this issue, and I'll post the "Go f..k yourself" response they will undoubtedly send me in the "How FUCKED UP is the LCBO?" thread.

3 years ago 1Who liked this?

@65glenfarclas

@OdysseusUnbound I didn't buy Laphroaig Cairdeas 2020 because all the flippers got to the ~500 bottles before I realized they were available early this morning. Five years ago I would've been pi$$sed off with FOMO and would have gone off on a KGBO rant on social media. Today I just moved on and ordered a Talisker 8 instead. Thought about the Lagavulin 12 BUT at 200 bucks, laughed and went back to work. I've reached "old man yells at cloud" state of existence. Good luck to the whisky nerds that found the "hobby" less than 5 years ago. Pricing on everything beyond "standard" range bottles has gone beyond stupid levels

3 years ago 6Who liked this?

@OdysseusUnbound

@65glenfarclas this type of nonsense is precisely the reason I’m getting more into rum. The rum people I’ve met are far less judgmental than most whisky people (fellow Connosrs excluded) and rum people aren’t profiteering off their fellow enthusiasts. Last summer I had a rum friend pick up 2 bottles of Smith & Cross for me in Toronto, at cost, and he got them to me at no extra cost. This kind of thing is common among Connosr acquaintances, but isn’t the standard modus operandi in the wider whisky world.

3 years ago 4Who liked this?

@YakLord
YakLord replied

@65glenfarclas Not interested in the 30yr Pittyvaich or 30yr Dalwhinnie?

3 years ago 1Who liked this?

@YakLord
YakLord replied

@65glenfarclas A cask strength 12 year-old Lagavulin at $199.95 is probably a better deal than the Game of Thrones Mortlach 15 year-old Bourbon Cask Finish for the same price...

3 years ago 2Who liked this?

@65glenfarclas

@YakLord I'm not interested in either of them. If I'm going to spend 200 bucks it will have to be a "special occasion" bottle, and I don't think either of those qualifies (especially since I already have Lagavulin and Mortlach bottles in the stash that are equal or better and paid much less for them)

3 years ago 3Who liked this?

@YakLord
YakLord replied

@65glenfarclas I wouldn't have bought the GoT Mortlach 15 if we hadn't been doing a Mortlach tasting. The 12 the 16, and the G&M 15 were all so much better and far less costly.

3 years ago 1Who liked this?

@OdysseusUnbound

I didn’t buy a Maker’s Mark Private Select bottling. Why? Because in typical LCBO fashion, it only went to large urban centres in Southern Ontario and Ottawa. You would think a bottle that sells out in minutes might be an online exclusive, but that would require competence from the LCBO.

3 years ago 3Who liked this?

@TracerBullet
TracerBullet replied

I will not be getting (or entering the ballot for a chance to get) the Bruichladdich The Ternary Project bottling. If google is correct, based on the stated price, it will come in at $380.23 american dollars! Then there is the shipping. Boy I want it but that is too steep!

2 years ago 5Who liked this?

@Timp
Timp replied

@TracerBullet yeah their taking the piss now. Shame.

2 years ago 3Who liked this?

@BlueNote
BlueNote replied

"...these non-conformist spirits are revealed for curiosity's sake." I just ain't that curious.

2 years ago 3Who liked this?

@RianC
RianC replied

@Timp - Aye, project rip off more like. £275 ouch!

2 years ago 3Who liked this?

@BlueNote
BlueNote replied

@casualtorture The 600 Euro delivery charge would be enough to buy a few nice additions to my cabinet.

2 years ago 1Who liked this?

@casualtorture

@BlueNote yeah, they've laxed up on delivery laws here in Tennessee finally so I'm looking at ordering some things I can't get here, but the shipping on everything is as much as the whisky!

2 years ago 4Who liked this?

@OdysseusUnbound

As much as it pains me to write this, I did NOT buy Lagavulin 12 Year CS. I love Lagavulin, but at $200 per bottle, it really is too much $$$ for me to justify buying one.

2 years ago 6Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@OdysseusUnbound I didn't buy it either. I have an open bottle of the 2015 that I am enjoying, It remains about 1/3 full since opening 4 years ago. I have a 2018 and 2010 waiting to replace it in my "open" cabinet.

Yes, I feel the FOMO, less so the FORO, but I also have fear of running out of room (FOROR?).

The irony is that at the rate I drink, a $200 outlay would be reasonable for a good bottle.

2 years ago 5Who liked this?

@TracerBullet
TracerBullet replied

@OdysseusUnbound This was years ago but my wife found it for $56 in Montgomery County Maryland. She bought me every bottle they had!!!

2 years ago 5Who liked this?

@Victor
Victor replied

@Nozinan you are making me laugh! Yes, FOROR! I know it well.

It is very limiting that Lagavulin 12 has become so expensive. As for elevated prices, will it be Lagavulin today, and Caol Ila tomorrow?

2 years ago 5Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@Victor I actually tend to prefer Caol Ila anyway. Although I have never paid full price for their CS expressions I do note that at least in Canada they do not come cheap.

I have accumulated a number of their unpeated CS bottlings, and many years ago got several 200 cc bottles of their OB NAS peated CS. I also have a couple of IBs. FORO has me wishing to find a couple more as I expect the price to rise steeply, but I will be satisfied with what I have.

2 years ago 5Who liked this?

@RianC
RianC replied

@OdysseusUnbound - it may surprise you (and others) to hear that $200 Can is still a cheaper price than you can get here ... where it's made (by the strictest legal definition, I think stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye )

2 years ago 4Who liked this?

@RianC
RianC replied

@Nozinan - My FOROR has now officially become AROOR (actually run out of room). So much so, the bottle of Blue Label I recently bought still sits on my kitchen counter top. You know it's bad when the 'top of yet another wardrobe' solution fails to offer any more help blush .

2 years ago 6Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@RianC I hear you. That is actually my situation right now. My fears have been realized.

2 years ago 4Who liked this?

@OdysseusUnbound

@Nozinan Maybe if we can get this pandemic under control, someone can come to your place and “liberate some shelf space”.

2 years ago 3Who liked this?

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