Whisky Forum - Arrrrrrdbeg

Latic · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:54 am Post subject: Arrrrrrdbeg

Launched today. Sounds like I'd enjoy it.

Waited in the queue. Price? 143 quid. Wow. Walked away.

Put this up for info rather than restarting the price debate.

I guess those who REALLY want it will buy it and will discourage the second hand market.

AB53Coo · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 4:44 pm Post subject:

I waited and got through too. But in seeing the price decided against it.

DillyT · Master Of Malts Joined: 18 Oct 2017 Posts: 333

I wonder how old it is and how many bottles they filled to be able to ask that price..

Latic · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:42 pm Post subject:

Who knows. Usually the festival bottlings are 90 quid-or so and I was expecting that ball-park price .

Extra production costs? Dunno, but surely not 50 quid-ish worth.

Confused

davidbe · Master Of Malts Joined: 28 May 2015 Posts: 499

Ardbeg in ***-take shocker.

blackcipher · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:59 pm Post subject:

I caved and bought one. Lover of ardbeg

James T · Master Of Malts Joined: 05 Feb 2011 Posts: 2965

I gave it a miss when i saw tthe price.

Naibed01 · Double Malt Member Joined: 20 Mar 2016 Posts: 116

I expected c Â£150, so i went for it. I love Ardbeg and drink each one I get.

My bottles due for delivery today.

Drame Blanche · Double Malt Member Joined: 18 Aug 2018 Posts: 156

I really love rye whisky and I was so looking forward to taste what a rye cask would do to Ardbeg juice, but there's only so much greed I can take from distilleries before I'm put off from buying their stuff.

I'm happy to be fleeced without complaints if you make me pay 85-90 quid for a novelty NAS, but for Â£150, dude, that money can buy you whiskies that are a work of art.

I'm frankly very disappointed about Ardbeg approach on this.

AlexArthur · Single Malt Member Joined: 15 Nov 2018 Posts: 21

I agree - I could have bought it but I did not - we have very few powers in our life, our buying power is one of the most important, so I decided not to encourage this kind of behaviour. NAS at about Â£150, no thanks.
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TheWM · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:14 am Post subject:

I remember the days of other releases such as Alligator etc where people were saying the same thing. Look at the secondary value of these now.

Frankly - the price is the price. If it sells then it isnâ€™t â€˜overpricedâ€™ to the market. Might be for us as lovers of whisky. But then you didnâ€™t really expect more when a 5 yo Ardbeg is going for Â£35. Iâ€™m guessing the 10 is in line for a price increase (aâ€™bunadh proportions) or to be discontinued. But then Iâ€™m over Ardbeg, the same way that I got over Mortlach, Glendronach and to a degree Balblair when they decided that marketing was going to lead the whisky, not the other way round.

MattS · Master Of Malts Joined: 23 Apr 2018 Posts: 529

Â£249.95 retail!
https://www.houseofmalt.co.uk/product/ardbeg-arrrrrrrdbeg-committee-release-single-malt-whisky/

davidbe · Master Of Malts Joined: 28 May 2015 Posts: 499