11-26-2012, 10:04
|
#1
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
Posts: 15,370
|
Glenfiddich 55yo Scotch
Any takers? 
The final bottle of 55 Year Old Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve is up for auction in Los Angeles in just a few days. Bottled in honor of Glenfiddich founder William Grant's granddaughter, the Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve is one of the rarest single malt scotches in the world. The exceptional whisky within is light and delicate on the nose with aromas of soft orange blossom and violets mingled with notes of toasted almonds and the subtlest hint of smoke. Fancy a dram?
__________________
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
|
|
Richard is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 11:00
|
#2
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,679
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
Any takers?
The final bottle of 55 Year Old Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve is up for auction in Los Angeles in just a few days. Bottled in honor of Glenfiddich founder William Grant's granddaughter, the Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve is one of the rarest single malt scotches in the world. The exceptional whisky within is light and delicate on the nose with aromas of soft orange blossom and violets mingled with notes of toasted almonds and the subtlest hint of smoke. Fancy a dram?
|
That is not going to be a cheap bottle.....
|
|
SF_BHT is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 11:17
|
#3
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
Posts: 15,370
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by SF_BHT
That is not going to be a cheap bottle.....
|
The previous bottle sold for around $94k! 
__________________
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
|
|
Richard is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 12:23
|
#4
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,679
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
The previous bottle sold for around $94k!
|
I do not mind buying a bottle of good Bourbon for 200-300 but 94K way out of my league...
|
|
SF_BHT is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 13:33
|
#5
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: May 2011
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 1,423
|
My frequency of overseas travel seems to be increasing without end.....so I'm always looking for something new to pick up duty free.
I'm thinking about picking up one of these Shackleton "tribute" Scotch whiskies(assuming I can find one):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/ma...anted=all&_r=0
I wonder how much the original recovered Shackleton bottles of Scotch would sell for(assuming they sold)?
Otherwise, it's trying to find some Bushmills 1608 anniversary lying around...or some younger Glenfiddich
|
|
Flagg is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 16:39
|
#6
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,585
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DocIllinois
Has anyone else ever tried to convince a Scot to do something they didn't want to do?
|
No, but I told a Scotsman to speak English properly, like an American, so I could understand what he was saying. It didn't work. Between spasms of rage I heard him say something about speaking the ''bloody King's English."
__________________
Ubi libertas habitat ibi nostra patria est
I hold it as a principle that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. –Gen. Mikhail Skobelev
|
|
SF-TX is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 16:55
|
#7
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Georgetown, SC
Posts: 4,204
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by SF-TX
No, but I told a Scotsman to speak English properly, like an American, so I could understand what he was saying. It didn't work. Between spasms of rage I heard him say something about speaking the ''bloody King's English."
|
I was watchin Hot Fuzz the other night, and had to turn on the "English Subtitles" to understand what some of those speaking "The King's English" were actually saying.
As to the OP, there are times when I am very thankful that I do not have a 'well-developed palate'! 
__________________
"I took a different route from most and came into Special Forces..." - Col. Nick Rowe
|
|
ZonieDiver is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 17:53
|
#8
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Orange, Ca.
Posts: 4,950
|
Wow, $94K a bottle. Is a blow-job included?
|
|
mark46th is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 18:32
|
#9
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,810
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DocIllinois
....Has anyone else ever tried to convince a Scot to do something they didn't want to do?
|
Edward Longshanks comes to mind....
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|
|
The Reaper is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 18:41
|
#10
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Raeford, NC
Posts: 3,374
|
Wow...$93K....:eek
Have a bottle of Glennfiddich 30 I plan to enjoy over the hollidays, but it was a gift from my sister.
__________________
D-3129 Life
"If one day you decide to know yourself...you'll have to choose the warrior path...You'll reach the darkness of your spirit.... Then, if you overcome your fears....You will know who you are."
"De Oppresso Liber"
|
|
Snaquebite is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 18:43
|
#11
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Occupied America....
Posts: 4,740
|
Waaay too many zeros in that price (on the left side of the decimal)...
There's good and then there's "I can't tell the difference"...
__________________
"There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"
James Madison
|
|
Ret10Echo is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 18:57
|
#12
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: OK. Thanking Our Brave Soldiers
Posts: 3,614
|
Richard Sir,
What a great find!
Now Ya'll Are SF Men....so am sure you can find a way to this bottle...By, On or Through something... 
Cheers!
Holly
|
|
echoes is offline
|
|
|
11-26-2012, 22:02
|
#13
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern Colorado
Posts: 479
|
I suspect the individual who buys this treasure will never sip it.
__________________
"Unrewarded genius is common. Persistence alone is omnipotent". Calvin Coolidge
"The wicked flee even when none pursueth". Proverbs 28:1
|
|
twistedsquid is offline
|
|
|
11-30-2012, 21:57
|
#14
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Washington
Posts: 2,064
|
I say we Mission Impossible that bottle (picture retired SF guys dangling from maxed out steel cables) and replace it with the similarly colored water that comes from my well. Who's in?
__________________
Grando autem duodecimo hominis
|
|
Divemaster is offline
|
|
|
12-30-2012, 22:15
|
#15
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Washington
Posts: 2,064
|
55-Year-Old Glenfiddich sets World Record price
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.co...tion/9282.page
\ "A rare and exclusive bottle of 55 Year Old Glenfiddich commemorating and celebrating the 110th birthday of Janet Sheed Roberts, the granddaughter of William Grant - founder of the Glenfiddich distillery - and the oldest person in Scotland sold for a world record £46,850 at Bonhams Whisky auction in Edinburgh on 14 December."
That's $75,711.55 USD today.
__________________
Grando autem duodecimo hominis
|
|
Divemaster is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 17:42.
|
|
|
Linear Mode
