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Bottle of luxury Scotch whisky sells for over $2M at auction, breaking records (Macallan 1926)
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| 11/25/23
| Timothy Nerozzi
Posted on 11/25/2023 2:12:22 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Huifkar blended scotch. It’s good for the shakes.
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posted on
11/25/2023 3:06:34 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Chode
A five liter plastic jug of whisky?
LOL
To: Disambiguator
It’s good for the shakes.
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posted on
11/25/2023 3:30:59 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Responsibility2nd
When I was young (but not too young), if I was sick my father would give me a shot of whiskey at bedtime.
To: Libloather
This is one way "the rich" park their money tax-free. They monetize something by paying 10,000x more for it than it's actually worth. Then 10 years later some other rich guy gives the original investor a 25% profit on his investment, and the beat goes on.
That's how doodles and kindergarten finger paintings like these come to be "worth" tens of millions:
Jackson Pollock's No. 5, $148 million
Mark Rothko's No. 10, $81.9 million
Buy it for a hyper-inflated price and it becomes a tax shelter. Then the art critics (who on the whole lack the talent to create something even this child-like) proclaim it a masterpiece and, Voilà, it is transformed into art.
For that much money you'd think they could go to the effort to think up a catchy title for it, huh?
To: Libloather
I was born & raised in a snooty Connecticut suburb of NYC.
The scotch there flows like a large creek.
Never developed a taste for it, though. (I like bourbon [Maker’s Mark,] and rum, [Jane Barbancourt] and beer — most decent lables.
So what’s a good scotch for a non-scoth lover?
(Yeah, yeah: Crown Royal — but is even THAT one
all that tasty?) Mere high price tag doesn’t impress
me as a good quality indicator, necessarily...
To: Disambiguator
A five liter plastic jug of whisky? With an EZ-Pour spout to fill up that empty bottle of MacAllan 18 your brother in law is always sneaking a tug from…
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posted on
11/25/2023 4:10:44 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: ought-six
Well, I'm part Scotch-Irish; so the extra seven or so bucks a bottle could explain my preference.
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posted on
11/25/2023 4:34:59 PM PST
by
PerConPat
(A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
To: PerConPat
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posted on
11/25/2023 4:52:48 PM PST
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: Libloather
This makes EVERYTHING I drink seems cheap and irresponsible. :)
I’ve got a nice bottle of Scotch that is bottle 79 of 100 I am cracking open for a certain special occasion, but it is no where near what some might consider expensive. I drank bottle 34 for a previous special occasion, and it was damned good and worth every penny. I’ve got a sleuth working on another bottle for a future occasion.
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posted on
11/25/2023 5:27:12 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
To: gathersnomoss
““Everybody guzzles Jack sometime....””
I had a boss way back in my Air Force days that said Jack was a “sippin’ whiskey.” Of course, if you played that “sippin” in fast forward, there was a lot of guzzlin!
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posted on
11/25/2023 5:28:30 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I have a bottle of cognac from opening day of Maxim’s de Paris in New York.
not going to open or drink it
looks somewhat like this
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posted on
11/25/2023 5:39:26 PM PST
by
algore
To: algore
Oh. Well if you’re not gonna drink it...
Can I have it?
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posted on
11/25/2023 5:44:54 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
To: Responsibility2nd
Of course, if you are the high bidder whenever or my kids (more likely) sell it at auction
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posted on
11/25/2023 5:51:44 PM PST
by
algore
To: Libloather
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posted on
11/25/2023 6:20:56 PM PST
by
CtBigPat
(There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suites. )
To: ought-six
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posted on
11/25/2023 6:30:36 PM PST
by
PerConPat
(A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
To: Chode
Looks like transmission fluid.
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posted on
11/25/2023 6:39:00 PM PST
by
Noumenon
(You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
To: Noumenon
prolly tastes like it tooo...
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posted on
11/25/2023 8:18:51 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: mythenjoseph
I am dumbfounded how ANYONE could disrespect money so much as to make a purchase like that for booze...their are some really stupid humans running around.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Like my dad told me, “some people have more money than brains.”
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posted on
11/25/2023 9:05:09 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
To: gathersnomoss
Everybody guzzles Jack sometime....
Before or after I lick my @$$
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posted on
11/25/2023 9:19:12 PM PST
by
South Dakota
(Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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