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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Taliskravaganza begins tomorrow...

Six days, Six Taliskers.  Three this week, three next week.  Some you may be expecting, some you won't.  Talisker Storm not included.

I was actually going to start in with the fun today, but then Diageo dropped the pricing and bottling news about their new Mortlach range (see here and here).  Worldwide facepalming ensued.  Dr. Nick Morgan once again demonstrated that (as if in a Monty Python sketch) he is being paid to insult the intelligence of his company's customers -- seriously, check out the quotes he gave for Roskrow's article.  And some of us were left wondering why Diageo is attempting to out-Macallan Macallan by going the Full Dalmore on the struggling Asian market.

Meanwhile, I wanted to approach Talisker's single malts with a positive, maybe even wistful, spin.  Especially since these may be my final Talisker reviews.  Thus I delayed the start of Taliskravaganza one day...

7 comments:

  1. One reason I'm contemplating that K&L 25 year old Mortlach. Even though we still haven't seen prices, the Faultline bottling is probably much cheaper than the official 25 year old and we are getting A LOT more alcohol. Heck, 60.6% is a monster ABV for a 25 year old.

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    1. Yeah, that official announcement did K&L (and the indie bottlers with casks in their warehouses) a lot of favors. The official 25 will be probably be priced at the Macallan 25 level.

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    2. 600 pounds or $1000 a bottle according to the press release. I'm not even sure 50 cL is legal in America. I recall Edradour hasn't released any of their Straight From the Cask bottlings here because that line is entirely 50 cL.

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    3. I believe they've said the bottles will be 750 ml for the U.S. market, with an even higher price.

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    4. Yeah, Alex is right about the bottle size. I'm not even going to attempt to guess what the US prices are going to be. I'll just say, yes they'll be higher.

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  2. You may just convert me to a full-fledged anti-Diageo-phile if they keep this up! Premium prices for 2/3 a bottle....."Because the bottle didn't look good at 70cl"???? Really? Packaging is driving the value equation?

    Eric S.

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    1. Also per Morgan regarding the 50cl, “There isn’t very much liquid, especially of the 18 and 25 year olds and this is a way of ensuring that that liquid gets in to more hands.” I'm not sure if he's needed at this point. His explanations aren't even thoughtful anymore and frankly don't sell bottles.

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