About 20 years ago someone gave me a bottle of scotch that was 40 years old.

It has been in the little bottle for 40 years.

It is a 1980's vintage Glenrothes.

I want to make some vanilla out of part of it, as I think it would be really good for that.

Anyone ever done that?

I know people are going to cry about using a $300-600 bottle of scotch for such a strange idea.

If it is a 40 year old bottle of single malt Glenrothes, then it's worth $4,100 (or more) a bottle. Doesn't matter how long you have had it as long as it has the original seal.

If all that is true, it would be best to sell it, buy a bottle of vanilla and pocket the remaining $4,098.23.

Or you could give it to me and I will send you 10 bottles of the finest vanilla extract on the planet.

BTW - What you are suggesting is like taking a Lamborghini Aventador and hooking up a Bush Hog behind it to cut your lawn.

Where are you getting these prices?

I just looked at it, I thought it was bottled in 91, I was mistaken.

Here is the gouge on it:

It was distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2002, making it 31.

https://www.whiskybase.com/whi...4951/glenrothes-1989

I just found this

https://www.whiskybase.com/whi...4951/glenrothes-1989

Do you reckon that it is worth $300-600?

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
https://www.whiskybase.com/whi...4951/glenrothes-1989

I just found this

https://www.whiskybase.com/whi...4951/glenrothes-1989

Do you reckon that it is worth $300-600?

It's only worth what someone will pay for it.

It's worth 10 bottles of vanilla.

I think shipping is the problem, you have to have some kind of license to ship alcohol, and to receive it.

I found some outfits that buy alcohol and are all in the UK.

quote:

Originally posted by Opus1:
It's worth 10 bottles of vanilla.

Then I'll make 10 bottles of vanilla out of it.

Somewhere there is a guy in a kilt rolling over in his grave.

This should move to the Humor Forum.

Scotch whiskey like most spirits isn't aged in the bottle. A whiskey that was distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2002 is considered to be a 12 to 14 year old bottle of whiskey.

A bottle that was distilled in 1960 and bottled in 2000 would be a 40 year old whiskey and correspondingly expensive and rare.

You could just drink it.

Dave

Guys, I am in the middle of a very delicate negotiation here and you're not helping with comments like "just drink it".

Wait until the day after the election and drink it quickly !! Your going to need it regardless of the outcome !

Bring it to DSC and we can all drink it together, does that sound better?

Yep... I'm all for drinking it.

Eh, I looked at it a couple of days ago. Still has the label intact.

I have zero reason to go to DSC, SCI, Sheep or any other convention with no outfitters at it.

If I kill an elk on the 2nd to last week of October, I am going to open it when I get home.

I had planned on having some when I retired from the military, but it didn't happen as me and the bottle were seperated by about 10,000 miles.

2020 has been a good year for me. New job (and a substantial promotion), killed a nice free range Aoudad in West Texas, and hopefully I can close out the year with this bull elk in the gila.