Merry Christmas To Me

[ras120]

And a Happy New Year, too.

This is the result of a recent Costco and Trader Joe's run, and I think I'll be set for a while. The Scotch is a 15 year Macallan sherry cask finish bottled for the Kirkland label (I've had this before and it's pretty nice). The big score for me is the Rogue double chocolate stout as I have had difficulty in obtaining their regular chocolate stout (which I absolutely love).

I'm also pretty stoked about the Sam Adams small batch packs which contain one bottle each of Griffin's Bow, Norse Legend, Merry Mischief, and The Vixen (all of 7.0% alcohol content or higher).

Good end to this year, good beginning for the next.

 

[chado006]

How much does that Macallan run? Our Costco doesn't have liquor, just wine, beer etc. I've not been overly impressed with Macallan 12, 15 or even the 18. Good stuff but terribly overpriced IMO. Bottling for Kirkland may put it into the price range it should be I wonder?

 

[Haggises]

I was sent out for a case of beer yesterday for wife's office party.
Returned with a case of Belhaven for me.
Merry Christmas!

 

[ras120]

How much does that Macallan run? Our Costco doesn't have liquor, just wine, beer etc. I've not been overly impressed with Macallan 12, 15 or even the 18. Good stuff but terribly overpriced IMO. Bottling for Kirkland may put it into the price range it should be I wonder?

It costs about half the price (I paid $50 for this bottle). In all honestly, I have never tried the non-Kirkland Macallan, so I can't offer an opinion as to whether or not it is the exact same product. However, I can say that it is some damn fine scotch and worth the price.

 

[Hunter]

I don't know if I could do kirkland brand scotch... everything else I have that is kirkland brand holds up as good or better than name brand counterparts but scotch is scotch... I will just have to man up one day and try it... though I assume I would have to find some first.

 

[JM]

chimay with a pipe! amazing. Merry Christ`mas.

 

[mwhitcraft]

That Chimay looks marvelous!

 

[ReAndyMator]

Macallan is good, but you're quite right - it's horribly expensive.

At the moment, all the big distilleries are selling every drop they can produce. Because of the long lead times (the distillate can't even be **called** whisky until it's 3 years old, and most malt gets used at 10-15) there's no spare spirit, which is why they brought out the 'fine oak' range - utilising some that had been matured in ex-bourbon casks, rather than the more usual (for Macallan) sherry casks. Because there's no more spirit, the price has to go up to compensate. The same is happening at a few others (most Glenmorangie dropped an age statement a few years back for the same reason).

FWIW, Macallan's second stillhouse went online in 2008, virtually doubling capacity, so I'm hoping to see a price drop around 2020. Everyone in the industry is ramping up production (Diageo just announced (iirc) a £1Bn investment in production) and I'm sure that fairly soon the market will saturate, and prices will begin to drop....

Also, FWIW, I don't care what it Costs - Macallan 18yo Sherry Oak is worth it(!) Last time I drank it, it was a beautiful June night - I was on my own, sat out in the highlands, with just the bottle, a glass and my Acoustic guitar for company. Well. Until a load of deer wandered past. I think my singing scared them...

 

[buffdaddy]

How much does that Macallan run? Our Costco doesn't have liquor, just wine, beer etc. I've not been overly impressed with Macallan 12, 15 or even the 18. Good stuff but terribly overpriced IMO. Bottling for Kirkland may put it into the price range it should be I wonder?

It's about $48.00, I recently saw it at my local Costco outside of Chicago. Considering Macallan's 15 year old is between $80.00-$90.00 depending where you look, this is a great deal.

Outside of trying Kirkland vodka, which I like. I really haven't tried any of their other spirits. But I'm very curious to try this!