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Posted 21 November 2011
Glenbridge Whisky 40 Year old £49.99 @ Aldi Should be £300
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Bargain supermarket Aldi is to sell a 40-year-old Scottish whisky with a whopping £250 discount.
The whisky, casked in a Scottish distillery in 1971, will be available for £49.99 instead of the usual selling price of £300 from 8 December.
But with just six or seven bottles in each store - the cut-price alcohol is expected to sell out fast.
****Please read this review****
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The whisky, casked in a Scottish distillery in 1971, will be available for £49.99 instead of the usual selling price of £300 from 8 December.
But with just six or seven bottles in each store - the cut-price alcohol is expected to sell out fast.
****Please read this review****
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sorted byNo, because whisky only matures in the cask and not in the bottle. They might have a small rarity value but it's unlikely to be very much.
Ahahahahahaha... oh god.
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I would avoid it and buy a Distillers Edition Talisker or Lagavulin finished in Pedro Ximenez sherry casks.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
He'll probably never talk to you again. However, buy him a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail for the same price and you'll become his favourite family member.
It's apparently from an un-named Speyside distillery.
Save your money and buy a good brand that doesn't need a PR machine.
Fact is simple
No point spending £50 on a bottle of whiskens, when you get one for 6
Im an alcoholic so all tastes same to me
Long as it knocks me out im happy
this whisky is a limited run of 3000 like it or lump it its going to increase in value thats for sure,
going by the reviews its of a very high quality single malt, and just to have a 40 year old whisky in the collection is something special,
a good 40 year old single malt will set anyone back £££s
to all who got a bottle or 2 Cheers and enjoy, for the ones who missed out and choose to be sour about it i will have a little nip for you,
should shut some up on here!
A different flavour.
Glen Marnoch is also an Aldi brand, and the one site which has a review of the 50yo also reviewed the 24yo - it said the 24yo wasn't worth bothering with.
If you have £30 to burn on a single malt, why would anyone even consider buying something from Aldi? There is a whole world of amazing whisky out there for that kind of price, and a good 10yo single malt will taste umpteen times better than a crappy 24yo single malt.
I agree,
Picture this scenario, you have a load of 40 year old Whisky that at 10years was good, and at 20years was great, you decided to take the chance and keep until it hit the 40year mark to hopefully have a real winner on your hands....
It turns out to be a dog, what do you do with it?
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Glenfarclas and Strathisla are both possible candidates for this whisky, However Stathisla used noticeable peating in their malt in 1971, and I would expect some smokey notes to have been mentioned in their tastings.
Glenfarclas on the other hand had stopped peating their malt in 1971, are very good at maturing sherry casks (look at their family cask range), and their old whiskies have a distinctive seville orange note to them. They manage their casks well and it's rare to get a dud one through this distilleries doors.
IF it is a 40YO Glenfarclas you'd be expecting to pay around £120-150 a bottle for an independently bottled version, and nearly £300 for a distillery bottling. At £50 it is a bargain but would benefit for not being dilluted down to 40% ABV!
could be peckham whisky
Yes, Aldi said it's a Speyside.
Aldi also said its usual selling price is £300...
Need I say more?
Actually, the fact they say the usual selling price is £300 is quite funny, seeing as it doesn't seem to have been sold anywhere else before.
Surely if this is the first time it's been sold, and they are selling it for £50, it's 'usual selling price' is in fact....
£50?
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Springbank 15
Lagavulin 16
MACALLAN 15 Fine Oak
These are all a pound or so cheaper and guaranteed good whiskies - value for money.
I have not voted yet, but in case any of you were wondering (hint hint), I would prefer any of those three for Christmas over the Aldi malt.
It may make an interesting bottle for collectors, but do not assume that this will be as good a malt to taste as the others I listed. I have not voted either way yet.
A song about a stubborn ass which is too thick to understand what people were trying to communicate to it?
There's definitely an aptness to your reference, but it certainly doesn't relate to AberdeenDad.
My wife got me a 3 litre bottle of coca cola last week but what's that got to do with scotch whiskey
The bottles tell you nothing. They are made in Alloa and can be bought by anyone unless the original designer took out a trademark link to a particular shape.
Probably the best thing that can be done with this Aldi offer is for 5 friends to put in a tenner each, buy a bottle, and have a nice evening couping it. If it is a great whisky, they can enjoy it; if its poor, they have only lost a tenner each.
Voted hot because that's a lot of age for the money.
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true, plus if the bottles actually worked like casks you would have very little of your original 2ltr left
Bells is a blended whisky & think this is a single malt?
Nose: A hint of smoke, some orange peel, marmalade / dry jaffa cake notes. New leather and wax jacket, but the overriding tone is dried orange peel.
Palate: Warming, oily palate of cough sweets, orange again (the middle of a jaffa cake), some wood tones, fresh figs, melon wrapped in param ham and a wee bit of coffee.
Finish: The orange lingers, developing in to cherry sweets and cracked black pepper. This whisky has been matured in European Oak Sherry casks and this really hits through on the finish, adding spices to the stewed fruits of the palate.
Overall: In a word, this stuff is very tasty. Take the age statement off this and it would still be a cracking drink for £49.99. Stick it on, and you have an absolute steal of a whisky. Warning, it does fall apart a little with water.
Not my review by the way!!
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I thought it was Aldi's own branding too. But Aldi didn't have a presence in the U.K in 1971 did they?? If not then surely this whiskey was brewed by another company who were later acquired by Aldi, or have a partnership agreement or something?
LOL beam me up Scotty.
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Mmm I hope you declare your taxes on the profit you make!!!11 IT'S ILLEGAL!!11 if you don't!!
Don't want the benefit scum making INSANE amounts of profit
It's been in a cupboard which is nearly a cask surely.(_;)