tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101162324715983722.post616655329533192157..comments2024-03-16T11:28:41.525-04:00Comments on Diving for Pearls: Caperdonich 20 year old 1992 First EditionsMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02288790197865570681noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101162324715983722.post-40806684173876930412017-06-07T15:31:04.837-04:002017-06-07T15:31:04.837-04:00It creates an interesting double bind that is bad ...It creates an interesting double bind that is bad for consumers and good for producers: when there is so little ability to actually try these whiskies from closed distilleries, there is isn't much information available to contradict the hype and what information there is tends to be positive because so few people are willing to admit it if they spent money on something that was mediocre to badJordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448702693643593156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101162324715983722.post-90650061669579915992017-06-07T10:29:59.492-04:002017-06-07T10:29:59.492-04:00It can also be difficult to state what a current a...It can also be difficult to state what a current and former distillery's "distillery character" is, as MAO has previously written. That's all part of the whisky experience, I suppose. But when it comes to closed distilleries, the bottles are priced so high that 99% of us are left reading Serge's notes, as if he's an archeologist reporting back about a dig.Diving for Pearlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02373371259792882112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101162324715983722.post-18318518239640588082017-06-05T20:05:26.433-04:002017-06-05T20:05:26.433-04:00This gets at a big open question in the community:...This gets at a big open question in the community: unless you're someone like Serge who has tasted dozens of expressions from pretty much every distillery ever, can you really get a sense of what the general quality of the output was like? There's so much selection and survivorship bias in what gets tasted these days that it's really hard to get a grip on what closed distilleries were really like.Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448702693643593156noreply@blogger.com