Re: A matter of style?
My ambition is to have had 1 bottle of each distillery in scotland by
the time I die.
Ya know matie, depending on the pace ya're going, yar liver may not be
able to sustain ya after ya've attained just a fraction of yar goal...
It's not so bad, as long as I don't try to fullfil my ambition within a 1
year period ;-).
There are roughly between 100 and 200 distilleries (haven't actually counted
them).
I have already had bottles from 70 - 80 distilleries over the last 10 years.
(Note to self: I have to stuff this info in a database).
let's say I still need 100 or so bottles, and let's assume I live another 50
years (i'll be 80 by then)
that equates to only 2 bottles per year. Hardly a challenge.
Btw, my wife shares this hobby. Let's say that we buy & consume about 8
bottles per year.
8 bottles per year is only (roughly) 2 glasses per week per person.
With 50 years left, that is 400 potential bottles to empty.
The real challenge is that I am also interested (and very much so) in
whiskies from silent stills, i.e. distilleries that are out of business, but
still have stock left, or bottles in circulation.
As you can guess, these become increasingly harder to find, and are als more
expensive.
But it's an ambition / hobby, just like collecting stamps. Only you'd eat
the stamps as well as buying them :-)
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Kind regards,
Bruno van Dooren
bruno_nos_pam_van_dooren@hotmail.com
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