Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:51 pm Post subject: Highland Park 30 Y/O OB prices??
Hello everyone,
As many of you may have read I started a forum on the price difference between indie bottlings and the OB distillery bottling using HP as my example in looking for a very special dram for my wedding.
All that being said after reading alot of great input in that thread I think I decided on the HP 30 y/o OB, the question I have is why is it priced at 400 pounds in the HP online shop and 285!!!! On masters of malt?? Am I missing something here lol? Is it purely because of the slightly lower ABV??
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:15 pm Post subject:
Supply and demand my friend, supply and demand.
The 48.1% bottling is the older bottling from 2005 up to recently. The 45.7% bottling is the new release from 2013.
The older bottlings are no longer avaliable from online retailers, so if the distillery his some and are selling them they will have jumped in price as people want to get hold of the discontinued ones.
I'm not a massive HP fan, and I dont know how the quality stacks up between the 2, but just remember that price != quality when it comes to whisky. Price = desireability.
Quality and desireability are 2 very different things.
.......incidentally (if you want to get an idea on how the prices compare) MoM were selling the 48.1% bottling for £200 before it sold out. So the newer one is actually "more expensive" in relative terms. _________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whisky is barely enough."
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