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Glenrothes Peated Reserve - Surely some Mistake?

3/11/2015

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Aye, in the price, I mean! £45 for a bottle of what they have stated is a vatting of 4 casks of 1992, finished for a short time in Islay Casks. That price just doesn’t make sense! Let’s look at the evidence;
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Glenrothes Vintage 1998 (6 years younger) is currently selling for £54.95 on Whisky Exchange. The 1995 (3 years younger) is £84.95. 
And yes, I know the Peated Cask is part of their NAS Vintage Reserve Range, (which Glenrothes describes as, ‘Exceptional Vintages from different years, married together in perfect harmony”), but even so, it is still comparatively cheap with the Elder’s Reserve (which is at least 18yo) and the Minister’s Reserve (at least 21yo) both coming in at £108 a bottle.

And that’s without comparing it to any other distillery bottlings in the same vein (Macallan Rare Cask Black anyone? I think I saw that with an RRP of about $450 USD)

Assuming that price is not a typo, since I have seen it from multiple sources, then firstly I would like to congratulate Berry Bros on their sensible NAS pricing, even though we know it is actually from 1992 (says something about today’s whisky market when £45 is a sensible price for a bottle of NAS) And secondly, I suggest getting to your nearest M&S sharpish and picking up a bottle, before someone decides they could probably get away with charging an extra £100 a bottle for it! 

I’ve not tried it yet, but at that price it’s got to be worth a punt! If only my nearest Marks & Spenser wasn’t 140 miles away…
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