Before you start saying, “How can any Scotch possibly be worth that much?” remember that velcro and digital clocks were yet to be invented the last time this $30,000 bottle of The Balvenie was mere barley and water.
Also, this is the Ontario price we’re talking about. This same Scotch sells for £6,000 (about $12,000) in the U.K. — so it’s not a $30,000 Scotch; it’s a $12,000 Scotch with a 150% Ontario liquor bureaucracy markup.
– Adam McDowell, “Libation Station: $1,750 a shot“. National Post/Libation Station, April 3rd, 2008.[emphasis mine]
Yeeouch, one hundred and fifty percent.
Similarly one of my favourites, the (comparatively) more reasonable Macallan 18, costs £69.50 (about $140) in the U.K., but at the LCBO, it’s $279.95.
(Hat tip to Patrick Metzger of Torontoist )
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