Hello Davin,<br><br>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.
<br><br>Harry<br><br>2007/11/12, Davin de Kergommeaux <<a href="mailto:maltmaniacsdavin@gmail.com">maltmaniacsdavin@gmail.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Harry,<br>Have you tasted any of the single cask Glengoynes over the past few<br>years? They are really quite spectacular.<br>Davin<br><br>On 11/12/07, Harry Pulley <<a href="mailto:harry.pulley@gmail.com">harry.pulley@gmail.com
</a>> wrote: <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> And yes, most IBs now own distilleries as well since I think it is now
<br>> easier to swap casks than to buy them outright. Unless you have your own<br>> source of swap materiel, you will soon be out of the loop. The question is<br>> whether or not anyone will want swap casks of Edradour, Glengoyne, Benromach
<br>> or others in the future.<br></blockquote></div><br>