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William
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 Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:43 pm Post subject: Macallan Lalique The Spiritual Home |
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The Macallan have released their fifth decanter from their collaboration with Lalique, Macallan in Lalique Six Pillars Collection, This latest edition is named "The Spiritual Home" is the penultimate decanter in the series, it is a rare 62 year old The Macallan single malt whisky. With an alcohol strength of 53.1% ABV even after 62 years in the cask, there are 400 individually numbered decanters available, prive £16,000
See link for more info and The Macallans tasting note for those of you who wont be buying a bottle:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/macallanlaliquethespiritualhome.htm
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Quaich1
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Macallan Lalique The Spiritual Home |
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| William wrote: | The Macallan have released their fifth decanter from their collaboration with Lalique, Macallan in Lalique Six Pillars Collection, This latest edition is named "The Spiritual Home" is the penultimate decanter in the series, it is a rare 62 year old The Macallan single malt whisky. With an alcohol strength of 53.1% ABV even after 62 years in the cask, there are 400 individually numbered decanters available, prive £16,000
See link for more info and The Macallans tasting note for those of you who wont be buying a bottle:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/macallanlaliquethespiritualhome.htm |
William, great piece on this new offering. This expression sounds lovely; the bottle quite eye-catching.
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Craven
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| 53.1% ABV is a pretty high alcohol strength after 62 years in a barrel. |
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5-12-1908
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A beautiful decanter in collaboration with Lalique....
I'm going to have to hang on until theyre in collaboration with the milk marketing board or Aldi.  |
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albo
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16k I'll take a couple. I could do with something to set alight atop the xmas pud this year.  |
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sorren
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I don't like it .. 
I guess I won't be buying one .. |
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albo
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| sorren wrote: | I don't like it ..
I guess I won't be buying one .. |
You could just pour it into an old bells bottle and toss this garish bottle out. Better still if you have a 1L bottle of bells with 300ml left in. Should make for a pretty good whisky to mix with coke on a warm summers night |
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Blackadder
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I would love to get the chance to taste this, i see Jim Murray has reviewed the 3rd Macallan Lalique release which was a 57 year old and he praised it very highly and scored it at 95. |
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Big Mac
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| I would love to taste these Macallan Lalique bottlings but they are way out my price range. I still have a unopened bottle of Gordon & Macphail Macallan Speymalt 1938 65 year old which i know is superb as i already drunk a bottle but i never paid anywhere near £16,000 for them. I wonder how much my remaining bottle is worth now. |
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Brummie
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| Big Mac wrote: | | I would love to taste these Macallan Lalique bottlings but they are way out my price range. I still have a unopened bottle of Gordon & Macphail Macallan Speymalt 1938 65 year old which i know is superb as i already drunk a bottle but i never paid anywhere near £16,000 for them. I wonder how much my remaining bottle is worth now. |
Very nice Mac, i am sure the Speymalt Macallan 65 would be worth at least £5000 now. |
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William
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Big Mac wrote: | | I would love to taste these Macallan Lalique bottlings but they are way out my price range. I still have a unopened bottle of Gordon & Macphail Macallan Speymalt 1938 65 year old which i know is superb as i already drunk a bottle but i never paid anywhere near £16,000 for them. I wonder how much my remaining bottle is worth now. |
Mac i tasted the Macallan Speymalt 1938 65 year old back in 2009 at the Whisky Show at the Guildhall in London, it was outstanding and one of my highlights of the show that year, i am sure it has more than doubled in value since you purchased your bottle, i dont think you see any around now. I would agree with Brummie you would probably have to pay around £5000 now to get hold of a bottle.
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Quaich1
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What you can buy for 16,000 pounds or $27,000 equivalent instead of this one bottle of scotch-
1) Buy a 1979 Corvette Stingray car, very collectible, $27,000
2) 2 Hire Donald Trump to Speak for One Minute $25,000
3) Make a Low, Low, Low Budget Indie Horror Film $27,000
Low budget horror
4)Buy an 84 Inch Sony 4K Widescreen TV $25,000
5) Buy a 1957 Cessna 172 Airplane for $27,000
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Buy the scotch. Which would you choose?
I'll take the plane.
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Alastair
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| The Corvette and Cessna would be tempting but they would have maintenance costs whereas the Macallan has no maintenance costs |
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Quaich1
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| Alastair wrote: | | The Corvette and Cessna would be tempting but they would have maintenance costs whereas the Macallan has no maintenance costs |
....also no retail value when the bottle is empty.
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Alastair
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| Quaich1 wrote: | | Alastair wrote: | | The Corvette and Cessna would be tempting but they would have maintenance costs whereas the Macallan has no maintenance costs |
....also no retail value when the bottle is empty.
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