Puff Daddy
Number of posts: 5541
Age: 49
Location: South of heaven
Tobacco: Mostly simple burleys these days
Pipe: Stanwells and Petersons
Registration date: 2007-12-09
 | | Subject: Re: Islay King? Sun May 06, 2012 5:21 pm | |
| Bruichladdich is a sore spot for me at the moment. Both big box retailers in the area (Bevmo, Total Wine) don't carry anything but Bruichladdich Rocks and I've been trying to source a bottle of The Laddie 10 from them for some time. I emailed them and Bevmo said they can special order it for $69  . Uh, excuse me? It sells all day long on the internet retailers for around $40 ( but shipping is nearly $20). Total Wine first said they can't get Bruichladdich. I reminded them that they were already stocking one of their products, so yes, they can get their products, because they're already on the shelf in their stores. Oh, wait, we'll getback to you..... 2 weeks later, yes we can special order it for $69. So here are two big retailers with distribution systems already in place to bring in the product, both of these places compete with everyone on price, but if a product isn't already in their queue, they'd rather try to take you to the cleaners for the trouble of asking their distributor to send a few bottles this way, bottles the distributor for Bruichladdich should already have, as they ae providing them for other on line retailers. Screw em, I'll just not drink Bruichladdich if I have to pay $30 over the going rate just to get a bottle. 
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Dreadgerbil
Number of posts: 136
Location: Boise, Idaho
Tobacco: Any good Black Cavendish.
Mc Clelland Oriental Cavendish
Navy Rum
Sweet Kilkenny
Any good Scottish morning blend
Pipe: Unmarked Rusticated Bulldog-ish lovely pipe
Duke of Dundee squared Billiard
Registration date: 2012-01-05
| | Subject: Re: Islay King? Mon May 07, 2012 7:51 am | |
| Joining this a bit late, but... While I do love a Laphroig I'm ALWAYS going to pick an Ardbeg over it. I love the extra peatiness and if you want any more peatiness it has to be Ardbeg or buying a Whisky that not commercially available. Also, I love the Ardbeg Tweed and would absolutely get a new Kilt made in it were it still available!!!!! (Maybe I need to get a similar design woven?) Thanks to Hamish for posting the lovely picture of his Kilt online.  |
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GrampaGrossbart
Number of posts: 368
Age: 100
Location: The Mountains
Tobacco: Pretty much anything non-aromatic, but especially McClelland's Three Oaks Syrian & Dominican Glory Maduro, Dunhill's Nightcap & (old) 965, Escudo, Rattray's Marlin Flake, Solani Silver Flake, ET's Stonehaven & Penzance, Gawith's FVF, BBF, & St. James Flake, & Mac B's Old Dark Fired...
Pipe: Favorites:
-Savinelli Gandalf Churchwarden
-Semi-rusticated Butz Choquin Anniversary Horn
-Semi-rusticated Jirsa Calabash (Varia, 14)
-1965 Dunhill Zulu (Root Briar 83 3R)
Registration date: 2012-03-28
| | Subject: Re: Islay King? Tue May 08, 2012 9:09 pm | |
| | Puff Daddy wrote: | Bruichladdich is a sore spot for me at the moment...
Screw em, I'll just not drink Bruichladdich if I have to pay $30 over the going rate just to get a bottle. |
Ouch--that's crazy! Honestly, I won't be picking up another bottle of the Laddie 10 at $40, to say nothing of $70! Too many quality scotches at a lower price point. Now, if you do come across the Organic at around $60, that's a whole different story: smooth yet rich, and for my money a unique dram, whereas the Laddie 10's been forgettable--so forgettable I keep forgetting I have half a bottle at the bar! Would that it were as easy to send samples of the golden elixir as it is tobac, I'd spare your curiosity and thus your pocketbook in one fell swoop. Maybe, anyway--one's man's Oban is another's Cutty, to be sure!
Bruichaddich also has a tidy gin called The Botanist which I quite enjoy, but oy, again with the killer price tag...This is probably stating the obvious, but have you tried to find a local, non-chain B&M liquor store in your area? In my experience, the best selections of whiskies--and beers, for that matter--have turned up in the shabbiest-looking, locally owned shops I've popped into on a lark. Happy hunting, in any event! |
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