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Nozinan replied
Easy.
Go back to the 1960s. Buy a few great new casks and a few bottles that will become ultra rare in the present day.
Lock them in a hidden safe or leave the, with someone you trust (like your father), and go back to the present.
Keep a little for enjoyment, sell the rest, and retire to a life of dramming.
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Ol_Jas replied
1960s Springbank!
Sorry, they're too irrelevant to my drinking today to have looked into any of their specifics enough to call out one bottle in particular. So that's as specific as I can get.
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sengjc replied
1950's
Buy a stake in the Macallan distillery - failing that lots of casks of Macallans and leave it in bond with them.
Fast forward to the future and cash in by selling it to the likes of Nicholas Cage and rich Chinese business people.
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Ol_Jas replied
I suspect that we have collectively failed to provide the kind of responses that rigmorole was hoping for. Instead of dreaming of those old whiskies that we presumably all lust after, we're got a bunch of Back to the Future-style get rich schemes.
The only compensation I can offer is this link to the recent "question for the old-timers" thread from the Whisky Whisky Whisky forum. It's largely a wistful "if only we knew then what we know now" lament.
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Nozinan replied
@OlJas
I think you've indirectly hit the nail on the head of why this whisky boom is building so quickly. So many people buying so many expressions because they don't want to hear later that "Glenxxxxxxxx" was a classic and they missed out. So they (to some extent, we, I'll include myself) buy "ahead", hoping we hit a few jackpots.
I know that 90% of my collection will be RARE in 30 years, and it will still be here, because I can't drink to keep up with my buying. Even if you can get A'Bunadh batch 158, no one will have and everyone will covet my batch 42. Even if Canadian whisky remains not particularly collectible as an investment, every aficionado will salivate over my bottle of FC Heart of Gold. Few will even remember it, of course.
So I don't really need to go back in time to drink old rare bottling... I just have to wait 30 years and look at my collection.
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YakLord replied
@Nozinan Interesting, although the phrasing of the original post implies that you can't bring anything back with you...now, if you buy something and lock it away in the past, then that might be acceptable, but it violates the "Which whiskies did you enjoy before you must return" question.
Personally, I'd go back to Japan shortly after Taketsuru established Yoichi just to talk with the man and get an understanding of his vision for Japanese whisky. Would I get some malt and lock it way for the future? Yes, but not as an investment scheme, but simply to enjoy with my friends.
10 years ago 0
Here's the deal: A very rich and eccentric inventor has perfected a time machine, and he wants to explore its possibilities with some volunteers. The machine is perfectly safe to use, so long as you return to the present time within one week.
The inventor (who is quite wealthy) has offered to pay $5,000 in gold. The gold must all be spent in the time period to which you travel with one stipulation: aside from reasonable living expenses (moderately priced hotels, one or two new sets of clothes, food, etc), you are to spend the lion's share of your gold on whisky or whiskey (once it is converted to useable currency). Any gold or converted funds that you don't spend must be given to charity before you return in one week's time to the present.
So . . . how far back in time do you travel? Where do you go? And, most importantly, which whiskies do you enjoy before you must return?