With the 2013 release having been named World Whisky of the Year in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2015, this is a hugely anticipated release of Sherried Japanese whisky. Just 5,000 of these sought-after bottles will be available worldwide.
This bottle was part of a private collection
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Our original allocation of this was split between a 3cl dram lottery [4 bottles' worth], a bottle lottery [1 bottle] and an auction (where everything over RRP went to charity) [1 bottle]. Why all the fuss? Read more on our blog.
Raisin, sun-dried tomato, clove, cocoa.
Deep, rich, sweet and sour, chocolate with hazelnuts.
Long, bittersweet, sour.
Deep richness, mellowness and complexity of flavours.
God knows how much the drams are going to sell for if the bottle costs £200+ 3cl is a measly 3 sips!!
I dare say that the price of this during the auction process will well exceed the price of a 30 year old single cask cask bottle of Karuizawa at auction, which at tops only a few hundred bottles are available in the world, hype hype hype I have even seen a London bar charging £140 for a 50ml measure, you can go to Roka and a 50ml Karuizawa SherryCask #5347 is £100,. I know what I would choose every day of the week.
Can you just release this whisky already so people can stop complaining. Next time just go to Japan and camp outside the distillery... If Jim Murray didn't write that review half of you wouldn't be here in the first place
If out of a European allocation of 2000 bottles, 198 are available in the UK, they should really be sold to UK residents. I wouldn't attempt to purchase a bottle from a German/Dutch/French website. If bottles are allocated to a country, they should stay there. Also, auctions are contemptible.
The issue is not charity and donating in general. The issue is (a) by saying proceeds (above RRP) go to charity it automatically implies there's gonna be a bidding war. The price will go way up there where ordinary folks like you and I won't even stand a chance to buy and (b) I think you got it wrong. You say "MoM give the excess to charity so they're not accused of profiteering." Way up there in the page is says - "(where anything over RRP will be donated to charity)" Where do you think this "over RRP" comes from? Where do you see MoM saying they'll put money from their pocket? It's their customers' pocket... Like many people mentioned below. Everyone chooses to donate to the charity of their choice. As for UK addresses I can only assume the comments that oppose to this are from outside the UK? Surely. MoM is UK based and their profits for the most part come from UK customers. Not from international sales. This coupled with the fact that there is only a handful of bottles allocated within the UK (most of which are already reserved for rich clientele and high end bars) I don't see what's unfair about it. If the US gets its allocation of bottles why should a folk from the states have a chance to buy from the UK site? Any UK site for that matter.
