[MM-MALTS-L] Re: What drives price?

[Harry Pulley]

Hello Davin,

Oh, don't get me wrong, I do like Glengoyne!  Their single cask bottlings
are too expensive to buy IMO (see, I'm also a slave to apparent value) but
they were at least briefly available for sampling in Toronto.  My point was
merely that casks of Glengoyne are likely not that desirable to other
bottlers for release as a single, though I can see them being very
attractive for blending.  I do not forsee swapping of a cask of highly
popular whisky for a Glengoyne, no matter how good it is, due to
marketability as the name still counts for a lot.  These days, Douglas Laing
Ardbeg prices are astronomical but I assume it is because people want them
and buy them, even at those prices (I don't and took a pass on the recent
15yo).  They won't be swapping Ardbeg casks for Glengoyne any time soon.

Harry

2007/11/12, Davin de Kergommeaux <maltmaniacsdavin at gmail.com>:
>
> Harry,
> Have you tasted any of the single cask Glengoynes over the past few
> years?  They are really quite spectacular.
> Davin
>
> On 11/12/07, Harry Pulley <harry.pulley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And yes, most IBs now own distilleries as well since I think it is now
> > easier to swap casks than to buy them outright.  Unless you have your
> own
> > source of swap materiel, you will soon be out of the loop.  The question
> is
> > whether or not anyone will want swap casks of Edradour, Glengoyne,
> Benromach
> > or others in the future.
>
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