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Nice. We should do source a cask for this thread.
If you don't mind my asking - was it originally £££? Not sure what they sell casks for these days.
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It was a long time ago, but I think it was about £150 for a 1/16 share, so about £2.5k for the cask. Overall, including duty and bottling it came to about £30 a bottle, excluding any allowance for interest on the original payment. Given that Buichladdich micro-provenance bottles usually go for £80-90+, I reckon that's pretty good. And it is very very good stuff.
The chap who organised it is trying to organise another but apparently it's proving hard. It seems that given the demand for whisky these days the distilleries don't need the forward receipt of funds which selling casks gives them.
Brommers
I picked up some new whisky at the weekend. Many, many years ago some friends and I bought a cask of Bruichladdich, with me buying a 1/16 share. Recently, after just under 13 years maturation in a new sherry cask, we had it bottled. It's cask strenth (65% ABV), bloody good, and I've got 19 bottles of it. Well, 18 because I've given one to a friend. Still bloody good though.