The Cellar - August 24th, 2019: Alcohol

Alcohol is a gift from God, it disinfects wounds, will fuel an internal combustion engine, keep your windshield washers from freezing.
I’ve even heard some ne’er do wells actually consume it.
Old expensive alcohol gives the rich people, always desperate to impress and short on things to spend their excess wealth on,
a grand opportunity. Since many of the newly ultra rich are in Asia the Japanese Whisky market has been soaring.

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Ichiro Akuto, whose grandfather founded Japan’s Hanyu whisky distillery in 1941, decided to honor the company before it permanently emptied its barrels. After Hanyu ceased production and Akuto acquired the company’s equipment, he embarked on a years-long project of matching scores of different leftover whiskies with dozens of card-themed bottles.

This set of 54 bottles with labels representing a deck of cards, one of four sets left, sold for over $917,000 USD.

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These buyers may be foolish but not stupid, they wouldn't pay that for rotgut whiskey in trick bottles. No, this is good shit, like this...

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The Six of Spades variety matured first in a hogshead cask, second in an Oloroso sherry butt. Distilled in 2000 and bottled in 2011, its alcohol by volume level is 56.8 percent.

The Queen of Hearts variety matured first in a hogshead cask, second in a French Oak cognac wood barrel. Distilled in 1990 and bottled in 2006, its alcohol by volume level is 54 percent.

The Eight of Clubs variety matured first in a hogshead cask, second in an American Oak puncheon cask. Distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2011, its alcohol by volume level is 57.5 percent.

The Ace of Diamonds variety matured first in a hogshead cask, second in a cream sherry butt. Distilled in 1986 and bottled in 2008, its alcohol by volume level is 56.4 percent.

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A lone Yamakazi broke the price record for a single bottle of Japanese whisky, selling for $343,000 USD.
The same thing is happening in the west, $558,000 USD for one bottle of wine.
What the hell will they celebrate with those bottles, the wife saying yes to anal?

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But the world champion is one bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch, with a label by Italian artist Valerio Adami, that went for $1,101,000 USD.
Pour that in your windshield washers. :rolleyes:

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