I miss the days when I could roll up into my local store and they almost always had EHTSmB for like $60. Just saw it on a secondary facebook group for $120. And I haven't seen it in the wild in like 2-3 years.
$125 is now the most I've paid for a bottle. I don't really see myself spending like $500+ for a bottle.
Interesting Spoiler: Article Bad News for Bourbon Lovers: No George T. Stagg in 2021 The Buffalo Trace Distillery says barrels of the cult favorite whiskey produced in 2006 did not live up to its standards. Oct. 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Since the early 2000s, bourbon obsessives have lined up to buy bottles of George T. Stagg, an uncut and unfiltered bourbon from the Buffalo Trace Distillery.Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Cooking Feast on recipes, food writing and culinary inspiration from Sam Sifton and NYT Cooking. . Among bourbon enthusiasts, the annual release of George T. Stagg, a barrel-proof, unfiltered bourbon produced by Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky, is a big event. Fans typically pay many times the suggested retail price of $99 — if they can find a bottle. This year, they won’t find any, no matter how hard they look. The distillery planned to announce Wednesday that, for the first time, it would not release any George T. Stagg bourbon this year because the barrels of the 14-year-old whiskey that had been prepared in 2006 and earmarked for the annual bottling were not up to Stagg standards. “It just didn’t look right,” Drew Mayville, the master blender at Buffalo Trace, said of the uncooperative bourbon. “It didn’t match the taste profile we expect from Stagg.” Mr. Mayville described that distinct flavor as having notes of dark chocolate, leather and dark cherries, though he added that releases vary slightly from year to year. The 2006 whiskey, he said, was too light and undeveloped in character to represent the Stagg brand, which the two-century-old distillery describes as “extremely hearty.” The company has yet to identify a root cause of the problem. Every new Stagg release is compared with previously released barrels to ensure consistency, and sampled by a team of seasoned taste testers. According to Buffalo Trace — which also helps produce the highly coveted whiskey Pappy Van Winkle — if one taster gives a thumbs down, the barrel is sent back to be aged longer. The barrels in question will be set aside and their future progress monitored, Mr. Mayville said. He said he considered using 2007 barrels for this year’s release, but decided against it, because it would disrupt a long-running tradition. A Buffalo Trace spokeswoman said that holding back on the Stagg release would cost the company millions of dollars in lost sales.
The no GTS news really sucks. This will make the other highly allocated bottles even harder to get. Good news would be that other #1 Mash bill products may be more plentiful in 2022
Do you hide it from your wife when you buy a $500+ bottle or disclose it . If the latter, does your wife try to cut your balls off?
Someone had some sort of EHT huge collection for sale on secondary facebook group recently for like $60k
I really want a bottle of Blantons, I never can find it in the wild, and I think it is smooth and delicious. I'd probably pay $100-125. Which is getting raped. But saw it earlier for $150. I draw the line there.
Machine gun posting: my collection has grown too large for our bar cart. We're moving into a new house so I told the wife she has to go buy us a bigger bar. Paying for the bigger bar
Hiding purchases from your wife, outside of like a birthday/anniversary surprise, is just a horrible horrible idea.
Yep. The coverup is always worse than the crime in situations like this. I've seen friends get divorced over financial infidelity, for lack of a better term.
I was checking local stores for an ER for Uncle Tupelo this week and saw the following prices: ER - $150 EHT Small Batch - $150 ORVW - $900 Lot B - $1400 CYPB - $900 WFP - $500 Old Fitz 9 - $700
I think you can get really good bourbons that aren't so highly sought after and thus are priced reasonably. They just aren't all the rage compared to BT products etc.
Yep. Just to take pictures of the bottles for social media. Bourbon world has gone meta, it is not about the contents of the bottle, it's showing that you have the means (cash or connections) to get the bottles.
Jesus. I love bourbon, but that shit has me moving more and more to scotch. Ohio is Tater central (I actually think we lead the US in total bourbon sales), and people literally line up 3 hours in advance on delivery day to snag anything that comes off the truck to flip.
I was told tariffs were going to price out scotch drinkers and further inflate the bourbon market. Joke’s on you, scotch drinkers… we hyper inflated the market ourselves!
Taters are freaking out over no GTS this year, and prices on previous years are skyrocketing this morning.
Well you’ll be able to name your price in a few days, especially since they’ll be scarce the further we get into 22.
My 19 is about 40% gone, thanks again BrickTamland Was hoping to get another this year, oh well. Still in search of my white whale WLW