• Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
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      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.

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      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.

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        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

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