• Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
      22·
      3 days ago

      I’m not saying this MacAllen is an escape of this, but there are plenty of people who buy and keep whiskey as an investment asset, and it can be pretty reliable by all accounts.
      So I guess it could be ‘worth’ 27k in some sense, just not to drink it. The most expensive whiskey I tried was I think £1000 bottle (sample at a whiskey festival, I didn’t buy it), and it just tasted like pencil sharpenings to me.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      3 days ago

      At some point the price becomes the selling point. Cognac became hugely popular among US rappers and basketball players because they would go to a nightclub and order the most expensive bottle to show off.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, and even beyond that you often find at very high price points it’s about it being something to give or to mark special occasions.

        Sure the rich probably aren’t drinking Johnny Walker black and standard Buffalo Trace like I am, but their standard drink is probably just a price point above, and some of them probably are. They’re likely drinking recently bottled single cask whiskies and stuff like Japanese whisky. When you get to “special occasion for the middle class” price points you get a lot of variety in amazing options

    • Fleur_@aussie.zone
      1·
      2 days ago

      There are people in this world who value money as bout as much as you value a single breath of air

  • knotRyder@lemmy.ca
    16·
    3 days ago

    They do this by Design it’s so that when you see a different purchase and you’ll be more likely to purchase it because you didn’t make the expensive one right at the door

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
      101·
      3 days ago

      In other words, compared to that whiskey, the $30 bottle of wine below looks like an absolute bargain

    • Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 days ago

      I used to run a whisky bar and I have tasted thousands of whiskies. Had the pleasure of trying a 1974 vintage 25 year old macallan a couple years ago (meaning it was distilled in 74 and bottled in 99) and it’s in my top 5 favourite whiskies I’ve ever tried.

      They used to peat macallan back then so it was like syrupy smoked caramel and spiced plums.

      That said, I would never pay that much for a whisky. I found that unless you particularly liked the flavour of a specific, more expensive whisky, there was diminishing returns around the $500 mark (in AUD). After that you’re just paying for rarity, the taste isn’t that much better.

      I have tried 50 year old Balvenie which is about $50,000-$90,000 a bottle depending on the vintage and I have to say I would be just as happy with the 25yo which is $1000. The flavour was close enough that I wouldn’t be bothered. Like side by side I could tell, but having just one by itself you could tell me it was either and I wouldn’t notice. (Still too expensive for my bartenders salary though)