[MM-MALTS-L] What drives price?

[whiskyhill at att.net]

I know, I know....  I had planned on bringing a bottle of 1976 Ardbeg cask 2394 to a future PLOWED convention in Las Vegas. Originally it sold at the distillery (this was one of the Y2K bottlings along with the 2392) for 100 pounds, or about $150 US back then. I bought the bottle from Alistair (formerly of the Lochside Inn) in 2002 for 200 quid. Now I see the Whisky Exchange has it listed for 850 pounds (or approximately $1700).  That makes me think about selling it now. Am I daft?

BTW, we would love to see you there again one of these years Ulf, if your schedule would allow it!

Slainte,
TB

-------------- Original message from "ulf at buxrud.se" <ulf at buxrud.se>: -------------- 

Dear Ralph 



Yeah several of us 'early' enthusiast experienced the same. Perrsonally I bought several of the dual versions  of legendary Springbank 'green' from Milroys in the early ninties. Price approx 45 pund each. I used most of  them as house whsiky for unfancy every day drinking. Today the bottles goes for 2.000 to 2.500 pound. Ouch...

Perhaps my early consumption made the version rare and l drove up the prices.... 

Lesson learned, make a rare version even rarer....(;-)

So, I may be on of the culprits at least in the Springbank  case. 

Ulf 


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GrandaRalph,

I think if we knew the answer to those questions, we could all retire and become whisky futures speculators.  A case in point, in 1994 I bought several bottles of Black Bowmore 1st release and a couple bottles of the 1963 Anniversary Bowmore (commemorating the 30th year of acquisition by Morrison).  There were thousands of bottles of the Black, but only 500 of the Anniversary.  I drank all of the Black and kept one of the Anniversary bottles squirreled away.

We all know how that worked out, the prices for Black shot through the roof in just three years and the Anniversary is still virtually unknown (even though IMHO it was the better of the two Bowmores). 

Go figure.

Sláinte,
Brian
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Ralph Katzenell <ralphoosh at 012.net.il> 

> Greetings all. 
> The recent discussion on pricing and collectability prompts me to wonder: what 
> exactly is it that drives up the price of a particular bottling? More 
> specifically, is it common for single cask one-offs (batch size say 190 - 550 
> bottles) to become collectors items. How long does it take.? How is its 
> "collectability"established? Does it need time, distribution and initial easy 
> availability (based on multi-cask batching) to become a collectors item. 
> Granted there are the advertizing promotions deliberately intended to appeal to 
> "faux-collectors". I'm more interested in applying the question to standard 
> bottlings intended for sale for consumption. 
> 
> Granpa Ralph 
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