Bottle Of Whiskey For Sale In Dublin - Can Anyone Loan Me $256k?

[matcom]

i'll pay you back i PROMISE

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DUBLIN: A rare bottle of Irish whisky is up for sale at a record 100,000 pounds ($NZ256,000), making it the world's most expensive single malt.


The whisky from the late 1800s and is believed to be the last surviving bottle from the Nun's Island Distillery in County Galway, western Ireland, which ceased production in 1913.

"It is a lot of money but it's like looking for the last dinosaur really," spirits expert Ken Thomas said. "This is surely one of the rarest bottles in the world."

Thomas, who runs a specialist drinks store in southwest England, is selling the whiskey via his Web site – whiskyandwines.com – on behalf of its owner, who inherited it.

"This woman walked in with the bottle in an old carrier bag and said she thought it might be worth money, and the more I looked into it the more exciting it became," Thomas said.

He said he believed the whiskey would be in good condition should its eventual buyer actually pull the cork.

"Whiskey is renowned for holding its own," he said.

Irish whiskey is generally smoother than Scotch, due to differences in the processing of the barley from which it is made. It is also often distilled three times as opposed to twice for Scotch, and lacks the "peaty" taste associated with single malts from Scotland.

The previous record price paid for a bottle of "the water of life" was 32,000 pounds, forked out by a businessman in a hotel in southern England two months ago.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3378397a4560,00.html

[KG]

1. John Barleycorn Must Die.

[LynneSin]

2. So basically you're going to literally piss away $256k

because let's face it that's ultimately what happens to Whiskey whether you pay $2.56 for it our $256k for it