What do I think?

Well do what I think really matter to anyone? I hear the cry from the gallery NO! well I'm going to tell you anyway. For me it’s simple I buy to enjoy and share, I purchase bottles based on recommendations from friends and online reviews, OK STOP there, first I only like online reviews from people who buy Malts by themselves not the reviewers who get there samples from the distilleries for free and plug it as great, outstanding, a must buy.

I purchase some bottles numerous times if I really like it and put some away for a rainy day, which could be a birthday for me or friends and family. I might add I do not splurge on bottles that are overpriced or priced based on presentation.

At my funeral, my wife sharing all my malt with the crocodile tear mob? no way, when I am gone, bottles will be given to family and friends who enjoy a wee dram and can appreciate it. or buried with me.

I have my preferred distilleries and my preferred ages from the distilleries, I think financially it makes sense to buy your run of the mill favourites at this moment, so here’s my example, I like Glenfarclas 105 so I buy a case of it, today’s price is around US60, in 5 years it will be double or more, maybe then I cannot afford to buy a bottle whereas now I can. Note here I’m not buying a case of Brora, keeping it for 5 years and then selling it bottle by bottle. It pisses me off when you see these tossers on face book bragging or selling as well as buying up everything.

Another thing I hate is the….. I have 100, 300, 500, 1000 bottles or I have the oldest bottling’s or all my bottles are older than Bla Bla Bla, it sickens me.

Yes I get some flak from people I talk too, but I’m from Glasgow we don’t give a crap what people think of us……………….

So my advice to the collectors who buy many bottles of one label to sell, I hope you never get to sell them or your storage crashes and and and many other thinks I cannot write here. We see this in the likes of the Bowmore Devils Cask, now in auctions and on FB for 3 times the price and its out for only just over a month.

 

Too the buyers who buy to enjoy, I raise my glass to you all.

 

Enjoy!