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Originally Posted by r4diohe4d
Kind of a philosophical question here:
I tried a couple glasses of Pappy Van Winkle (the 15 I think) for the first time last year and have since bought several nice ryes/bourbons/scotches off of recommendations in this thread in the interim. Not sure how much the good cigar/friends/bar experience contributed to my perception but I'm not going to lie it was easily the best tasting whiskey I can remember having by a lot. I spent some time yesterday looking into buying bottles and have learned about the enduring shortage/fall single release/etc. So here is the question for people that would know better than me:
Is it worth bothering to get price gouged on a bottle of the Rip Van Winkle 10/12? I've never had it so is it a decent poor man's substitute for the Pappy? Is there absolutely any bourbon out there that I can get and be happy with to give a Pappy 15/20 a run for its money so I don't have to go spend 300++ to try to track down a bottle from a private seller at this time of year?
Eagle Rare 17, if you can find it is a great bottle. I recently bought 1 bottle of pappy years 10,12,15,20 each. I love em all but of course hard to find and therefore over pay for them. The Eagle Rare 17 was just as good IMO, also just the regular Eagle Rare is a great bottle, especially for it's price.
Other notable bottles I recently had: Stag and the Willet you've already mentioned.
If you're into scotches a few recommendations I have: The Balvenie 12 yr old Doublewood is one of my all time favs, excellently priced. Also all The Balvenie years are great. Oban 14 yr old.
Last edited by GrooveOrDie; 03-01-2013 at 01:49 PM.
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