JSA wrote:
Blind auction this past weekend. Merry Christmas to me!
Bastard.
However, I knew Pappy wasn't going to happen. Or even BTAC. So I put in the work with a restaurant here and got all three batches of OF150. A lot of dinners that that place for the opportunity.
ETA: Failed to see the date and thought this was recent!
The GMAN wrote:
Costco is raffling the opportunity to buy a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle. Not raffling the bottle. Raffling the chance to buy it.
This is becoming very standard across the industry, you seem to have stores that reward their best customers err alcoholics with the chance to buy an allocated bottle, a raffle, or charging at secondary pricing. Costco raffled Old Forester Birthday Bourbon here in AZ at the Surprise location that just opened. You also don't have to buy anything to be a part of the allocated raffle. Fry's raffled their entire allocation last year, one of the three stores raffled off 10 cases of Blanton's...somehow I did not get drawn for even a Blanton's.
bluemonkeytri wrote:
Ok, i have a bargain for you. Early Times Bottled in Bond. Got,it here for about $22 a bottle. Really,good.
It is a very delicious bottle. I need to find a back up to the back up. Too bad Brown Forman sold it to Sazerac.
ironclm wrote:
So how much of this bottle do you have left?
There's a new book out about the Pappy family.
https://www.wsj.com/...d=&mod=djemITP_h “Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last,” by Wright Thompson.
Ordering a copy. What annoyed me was the CBS segment that was done made to reference to the fact that it is a product of the Behemoth Buffalo Trace Distillery and Sazerac Company. Although I know the book actually pays special attention.
Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.