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If you can get PVW23 at retail I’d grab a bottle, it’s good, but I’m in the camp it’s not great. I’d buy it at retail to trade for what I like more. I think it’s overoaked, and there are lots of other bourbons that I’d reach for first. I’ve had a pour of the 25 and it wasn’t good.
Last time I was able to get Pappy at retail was about 5 years ago. I luckily have bunkered a lot of stuff I love that I’m now working through, last bourbon I bought was about 8 months ago via foreign auction. It’s gotten much more difficult to get auction deals now, sadly. If I had some PVW23 still I’d mail you an ounce sample. The last time I had a bottle I used it some for manhattans...so that should tell you how much the landscape has changed over the last 10 years, ha. |
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I rarely walk into an ABC store these days but I do use Everclear for French Polish shellac finishes and you cannot even get that in Virginia. Least not at my local ABC's anyway. |
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in the same vein as the PVW madness, so too is the weller madness. and I am not talking about BTACs but the no longer found on the shelf weller special reserve, 107 and 12yo. |
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ugh, pappy is one of the white whales in my collection. that said, if anyone has a line and wants to help out a fellow paceliner... let me know, doesn't have to be the 25 either
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What's wrong with a $27 bottle of Buffalo Trace, I say. Buy, drink, enjoy. Repeat.
No tears, no gnashing of teeth and no financial advisor required, and no need to appraise your bourbon collection for insurance purposes.
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I have had Weller 12 and it was very good. I think it was $200/bottle. But I also like Maker's Mark. And with Scotch, I'm happy with Monkey Shoulder.
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I do miss the days of PVW sitting on shelves, REALLY good 4Roses picks, aged Willet bottles that weren’t priced 100$ a year, and going to yard sales and buying old stashes. It was fun while it lasted... |
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I thought finding Weller would be easy, the $20/bottle version of Pappy but that's all sold out too. But there's so many good whiskey labels, not worth spending large amounts of money on Pappy...
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Another reason nobody has any money for retirement.
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Living in a place that allocates by lottery, I enter every year. The closest I have gotten to getting a bottle of pappy is a bottle of old rip van winkle.
I kind of wish I had sold the Old Rip instead of drinking it. It has an auction value of about $1000 CAD. It is good, but not that good. if I were to win a bottle of the pappy in the allocation lottery I would definitely put it up for auction, and take the money and buy a single shot. Auction here is pretty easy, as Waddington's does them 2-3 times a year. Recent auction price of $3600 cad for a bottle of 23 yr old is too great of a return on the $300 purchase price. |
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BTW with prices that high I'd be very weary of counterfeits.
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I've had the 23, the 20 and the 15 - I'm with pdmtong, to me it's the best of the range, but it's not 'the best'. I think PVW/Julian Van Winkle's best are his ryes.
My daily is Eagle Rare 10 or Elmer Lee. If you're flush, go for it. Keep in mind Bourbon is not as widely collected as Single Malt. I have also never met anyone who seriously collected high end blended malts, Canadian Whiskey, Tennessee Whiskey, Kentucky Rye or Japanese Whisky. I don't speculate but if I did, I'd load up on Single Malts instead. |
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Now I look at my single malts and think the same thing...fark once these are done that's it. For instance there is no more age statement laphroiag. why didnt I buy that Laph 40 for $399 years ago? Because it was $399 and that was a lot then. Japanese whiskey has been priced up too and age statements have disappeared. That Hibiki 17 I bought at Costco for $115 is around $500-600 on many sites. Should have bought more yamazaki 18 as well. oh well. Yes, The Pappy Rye is terrific... |
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