Yes, it’s that time again—the Diageo Special Releases for 2016 have been announced. Cue the normal outrage on social media about the pricing, so I thought I’d get that out the way.
Yes, these whiskies are expensive—some of them very expensive, indeed. But they are rare and of exceptional quality, and to be fair all Diageo have done is thwarted the rapid profit-taking by speculators by pricing them according to the market. If it means the whiskies take a little longer to sell, then we can hope that they end up being consumed and not squirreled away in an ‘investment’ portfolio. So,...
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