Whisky shop sells rare Glenfiddich for €20,000

There's a photo report on the SZ website that Munich whisky shop Tara has sold a bottle of the world's oldest single malt Scotch whisky for €20,000 to Dutch whisky collector, Cees van den Brink. There are only 61 bottles of the Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937 worldwide, but a quick google led me to a website that was only charging €17,000 if anyone's interested.

For the whisky-lovers out there, according to the Glenfiddich website the Malt Whisky Companion writes that it has a nose with a "huge bouquet" of "newly dug peat, burnt heather, old books, leather and oak", and a "smooth and silky" palate that "wraps around the tongue, with sweet flavours reminiscent of treacle toffee, crème brûlée and toasted almonds." A German website, http://richtigteuer.de, goes further and detects oak, toffee, cinnamon, cloves, leather, strong coffee, cedar, bitter chocolate and sweet tobacco.

Van den Brink purchased the bottle over the internet, but travelled to Munich to pick it up from Tara last Thursday, and can now add it to his existing collection of 180 whiskies. It could have been worse - apparently a bottle would have cost him €35,000 if he'd bought it in the Far East.

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"newly dug peat, burnt heather, old books, leather and oak"

seems you could sip some cheaper glenfiddich and then lick the ground next to a tree

Once read a review of a Burgundy that, in part, described it as smelling of rotten cabbage and old socks. Yummy huh?

i like my whisky but 20k for a bottle!!!

I'd prefer to buy a €19,995.00 euro car and a €5 bottle of whiskey...but whatever floats your boat