$27,000 for a........

[Chef2]

Bottle of scotch.

Stop it.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/01/08/oregon-man-spends-27000-on-a-single-bottle-of-scotch/?hpt=hp_t2

 

[Songbird]

$27,000? Maybe if I won the lottery.

I'm fine with this ...

 

[LongTimeListener]

Definitely I'd choose 45 weekly sessions with Suzy Favor.

 

[Matt1735]

I was hoping you weren't going to pay that much to have your toe reattached.

 

[Buck]

I enjoy liquor very much, but I don't think I'd buy a $27k bottle of hootch if I had Bill Gates' money.

 

[amraeder]

I was hoping you weren't going to pay that much to have your toe reattached.

Pretty much my first though when I saw this thread, too.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

For a second I thought this was the jobs board and the San Diego paper needed a new Chargers writer.

 

[Bradley Guire]

When you're unemployed like me, you drink a lot of cheap **** and pray for the night to take you. I couldn't afford to look at the label on $27,000 Scotch.

 

[Petrie]

Isn't $27K what quite a few of us make in a year?

 

[Ace]

I thought the answer would be sports editor -- or two San Diego beat writers.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I was hoping you weren't going to pay that much to have your toe reattached.

I was thinking "to have a toe cut off". Figured Chef was going into business for himself.

 

[joe]

Was that how much the bottle on "Lost" cost?

 

[The Big Ragu]

They do 50 bottles of these a year. They actually had a one-time 55-year old bottle named after the distilleries granddaughter for which they did 11 bottles last year. I saw one auctioned off for around $90,000, I believe.

I am sure it is amazing scotch. But there is no scotch -- and I love a good single malt (although not big on Glenfiddich usually) -- worth that kind of scratch.

 

[joe]

I'd rather spend $45 on a nice 12-year-old bottle of The Macallan. And have $26,955 left over for the hookers and coke.

 

[SoCalScribe]

I am open for suggestions on favorite affordable or semi-affordable whiskeys since I have not tried but a few whiskeys.

It seems like Evan Williams bourbon is the best cheap whiskey I have had. Among more expensive labels, I also tried Famous Grouse, which is pretty good and well spiced, and once had a glass of J. Walker Green Label, which is the best and most expensive I have ever tried. Incredibly smooth and rich.

The worst "whiskey" I ever tasted was Yukon Jack. Which I think is mostly isopropyl and caramel color. It even smelled rancid. Avoid at all costs.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

What's the most expensive drink you've ever had?

I had a $100 glass of scotch at a wedding. It tasted fine, but they could have given me something from the grocery store and I probably wouldn't have known the difference.

A friend of mine got a $2,000 bottle of wine as a gift from an overseas client. My wife and I shared the bottle with him and his wife. It was pretty great. If someone offered me the same bottle for $100, I would pass...

 

[Buck]

I am open for suggestions on favorite affordable or semi-affordable whiskeys since I have not tried but a few whiskeys.

It seems like Evan Williams bourbon is the best cheap whiskey I have had.

For regular price-range consumer bourbon, you've got to go with the Wild Turkey 101. It's the best quality to price ratio you can get.
Wild Turkey 80 is not as good. Too sweet and too much vanilla. The extra heat of the higher proof burns off some of the sweetness and opens it up beyon just the vanilla niotes that come through at 80 proof.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I am open for suggestions on favorite affordable or semi-affordable whiskeys since I have not tried but a few whiskeys.

It seems like Evan Williams bourbon is the best cheap whiskey I have had.

For regular price-range consumer bourbon, you've got to go with the Wild Turkey 101. It's the best quality to price ratio you can get.
Wild Turkey 80 is not as good. Too sweet and too much vanilla. The extra heat of the higher proof burns off some of the sweetness and opens it up beyon just the vanilla niotes that come through at 80 proof.

I'm not a bourbon drinker, and I don't like Wild Turkey that much, but this is the way I feel about Jameson's -- the regular, 12 year old. There are a number of whiskies I'd choose over it if you are paying, but for price to drinkability ratio, I drink Jameson's a lot.

 

[Buck]

I am open for suggestions on favorite affordable or semi-affordable whiskeys since I have not tried but a few whiskeys.

It seems like Evan Williams bourbon is the best cheap whiskey I have had.

For regular price-range consumer bourbon, you've got to go with the Wild Turkey 101. It's the best quality to price ratio you can get.
Wild Turkey 80 is not as good. Too sweet and too much vanilla. The extra heat of the higher proof burns off some of the sweetness and opens it up beyon just the vanilla niotes that come through at 80 proof.

I'm not a bourbon drinker, and I don't like Wild Turkey that much, but this is the way I feel about Jameson's -- the regular, 12 year old. There are a number of whiskies I'd choose over it if you are paying, but for price to drinkability ratio, I drink Jameson's a lot.

Being of 100 percent Irish extraction and coming from a Catholic family, I love Jameson's. I grew up drinking it.
Nowadays I drink it rarely. Bourbon is my hootch of choice for the past 20-plus years.

 

[Webster]

What's the most expensive drink you've ever had?

I had a $100 glass of scotch at a wedding. It tasted fine, but they could have given me something from the grocery store and I probably wouldn't have known the difference.

A friend of mine got a $2,000 bottle of wine as a gift from an overseas client. My wife and I shared the bottle with him and his wife. It was pretty great. If someone offered me the same bottle for $100, I would pass...

Mrs. W loves Armagnac. On our honeymoon, at the best and most expensive meal that I ever had, they offered a glass from which was about $150. It was about 90 years old at the time. She thought it was great, while I thought it tasted as aful as any other.

I've had a few of the California cult wines at work events -- Harlan Estates and Screaming Eagle are the names I remember. Retail about $1,000. And while I like Napa and Sonoma reds, I thought that they were fantastic, but not appreciably better than a wine costing $50 or certainly $100.