Whiskey Clique

For those of you with disposable income and cash to burn....
https://youtu.be/iKE_tdfDvGQ?si=K7IsJONADqt-_efx

Had an opportunity to buy a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle for $1k today. I didn't end up getting it. 

The same store had A Midwinter Nights Dram for $300 and a Bookers in the wooden box for $119.00. Pretty reasonable prices on most of the more common stuff in there. 

They had four or five different Calumet Farms of different ages. Are any of them worth picking up?

tempo_n_groove said:

dudeman said:

Had an opportunity to buy a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle for $1k today. I didn't end up getting it. 

The same store had A Midwinter Nights Dram for $300 and a Bookers in the wooden box for $119.00. Pretty reasonable prices on most of the more common stuff in there. 

They had four or five different Calumet Farms of different ages. Are any of them worth picking up?

Which bottle of Pappy?

Midwinters nights dram should be under $200.

Not sure this place is your friend w those prices...

I didn't even ask which Pappy it was. I knew the MND was overpriced too. They had Woodford Double Oaked for $55.00 which is the lowest price I've ever seen on that. Four Roses Single Barrel was $45.00.

I ended up leaving empty handed that time but that's where I'll go when I need WR Double Oaked or Four Roses again. 

dudeman said:

Had an opportunity to buy a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle for $1k today. I didn't end up getting it. 

The same store had A Midwinter Nights Dram for $300 and a Bookers in the wooden box for $119.00. Pretty reasonable prices on most of the more common stuff in there. 

They had four or five different Calumet Farms of different ages. Are any of them worth picking up?

I'm glad you didn't get it.  Even if it was the 23, that's 2x+ MSRP.  Midwinters has become such a joke IMO.  It legit was good whiskey back when High West was more or less independent.  Good bottle, decent price...I still have 3 of them from those days.  There are currently 8-9 of Midwinters sitting on the shelf at my local grocery store, and that's been the case for months now.  Overpriced, not as good.  
Bookers is also entirely overpriced for the quality you get.  Pass everytime IMO.
Calumet is solid.  I have the 14 and the 16.  If I could find a 18 for MSRP, I would buy one, one time.  Beautiful bottle and i've heard nothing but amazing things about it.  

Any Bulleit drinkers here?

markymark550 said:

pearldavidson said:

Any Bulleit drinkers here?

I drink it from time to time. It's definitely one of the higher rye bourbons out there. I think it's close to 30% rye in their mash bill. To me, it's like an even spicier Woodford.

It's my go to "maintenance" bourbon. I think it's pretty solid.  

markymark550 said:

pearldavidson said:

markymark550 said:

pearldavidson said:

Any Bulleit drinkers here?

I drink it from time to time. It's definitely one of the higher rye bourbons out there. I think it's close to 30% rye in their mash bill. To me, it's like an even spicier Woodford.

It's my go to "maintenance" bourbon. I think it's pretty solid.  

Woodford is my go to and it's about 20% rye, so I completely understand liking the spicier bourbons. I really like Bulleit in cocktails. I think it's great in an Old Fashioned.

I never knew Bulleit was that high in rye. It just goes down smooth for me.  I drink it to avoid using my harder to find stuff. Trace, Rare, Blanton's. Also sitting on a Japanese bourbon that was aged 12 years.  I received that as a gift a few years ago.

pearldavidson said:

markymark550 said:

pearldavidson said:

markymark550 said:

pearldavidson said:

Any Bulleit drinkers here?

I drink it from time to time. It's definitely one of the higher rye bourbons out there. I think it's close to 30% rye in their mash bill. To me, it's like an even spicier Woodford.

It's my go to "maintenance" bourbon. I think it's pretty solid.  

Woodford is my go to and it's about 20% rye, so I completely understand liking the spicier bourbons. I really like Bulleit in cocktails. I think it's great in an Old Fashioned.

Also, I see that you are from the Palmetto State.  I am a HHI enthusiast to say the least lol. Love that place.

Yep, grew up in the upper part of the state and moved to Columbia when I went to U of SC and never left. HHI is very nice, but I don't get down there that often. When we go to the beach, it's usually to Edisto, which is about halfway between HHI and Charleston on the coastline.

First time I tried Bulleit, I double checked the label because I thought I had picked up a rye by accident lol.

Japanese whiskeys are hit and miss for me. I've been able to try probably ten or so from being in Flaviar (fun if you have the income to spare, but not really worth the value imo). A couple were good, but more of them had a very medicinal taste to them imo.

mca47 said:

dudeman said:

Had an opportunity to buy a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle for $1k today. I didn't end up getting it. 

The same store had A Midwinter Nights Dram for $300 and a Bookers in the wooden box for $119.00. Pretty reasonable prices on most of the more common stuff in there. 

They had four or five different Calumet Farms of different ages. Are any of them worth picking up?

I'm glad you didn't get it.  Even if it was the 23, that's 2x+ MSRP.  Midwinters has become such a joke IMO.  It legit was good whiskey back when High West was more or less independent.  Good bottle, decent price...I still have 3 of them from those days.  There are currently 8-9 of Midwinters sitting on the shelf at my local grocery store, and that's been the case for months now.  Overpriced, not as good.  
Bookers is also entirely overpriced for the quality you get.  Pass everytime IMO.
Calumet is solid.  I have the 14 and the 16.  If I could find a 18 for MSRP, I would buy one, one time.  Beautiful bottle and i've heard nothing but amazing things about it.  

Last years was the highest rated since Act 4 I believe.  Last years was exceptional.  The other years I could see why you'd be angry at the price.

Bentleyspop said:

Bentleyspop said:

For those of you with disposable income and cash to burn....
https://youtu.be/iKE_tdfDvGQ?si=K7IsJONADqt-_efx

The pre-sale estimates for this whiskey collection started at around $1.17 million, but the final sale price more than doubled that figure, coming in at over $2.5 million. All 360 lots in the collection sold in the live auction — held January 24, 2026, in New York City — with 89% of the lots exceeding the high-end of their pre-auction estimates.

After I watched that video I knew that stuff was going to go for big money.  I had thought it was stuff made in the past few years.

Most of that was Stitzel so you know it was going to be high.