New highs for the Van Winkle brands!

[ggilbertva]

If I was in DC I wouldn't be shopping for Van Winkle Lot B (even though I love it)

[WsmataU]

The new stuff is high priced....the old stuff is practically give away.

[ggilbertva]

????:skep:???? What am I missing?

I was referring to items like Lot B, BTAC, Willett and other things in DC that come at a premium. For instance, I've seen BTAC in DC that range in price from $75 to $95 and then you have to add the 10% tax on top of that. If you're shopping for dusty bottles, those things typically are priced low to start with and then I've been able to talk the owners into a 10% discount, thus negating the 10% tax. I've picked up handles of WT101 8 year for $25 or a handle of '79 Early Times KSBW for $13. I look at it as getting a double bonus.....low prices and great bourbon.

[WsmataU]

Ok, thanks. That makes sense. I usually prefer hunting in DC and MD just because I know that VABC doesn't carry much interesting, and I don't get out of State as often as I'd like. I've seen some posts indicating that WV is a goldmine.

[Big Chipper]

My retailer says he only gets shipments once a year...I think it's BS.

[DowntownD]

My retailer says he only gets shipments once a year...I think it's BS.

some VW products, namely the Rye, are indeed shipped once a year, and I've heard that Pappy 15 often only ships a couple of times a year...

[tommyboy38]

I talked to a distibutor here and they get it twice a year.

Don't know for sure but I assume the retailer can get it whenever the distributor has it in stock.

[jburlowski]

My retailer says he only gets shipments once a year...I think it's BS.

In fact, IIRC, Julian only does one bottling a year these days.

[RedVette]

I think I just got the last bottle of Pappy 20 in Oklahoma. $77.

[smokinjoe]

I think I just got the last bottle of Pappy 20 in Oklahoma. $77.

Dang, Rob. You may also have just got the cheapest bottle of Pappy 20 on the planet! Well done, sir.

:toast:

[tommyboy38]

Almost but not quite. The last one I picked up was $76.50. Sales/liquor tax added another $9 bucks or so.

[WsmataU]

When do we expect the fall release of PVW?

[callmeox]

When do we expect the fall release of PVW?

Product is currently moving. Stores in KY got their allocations the week of the festival and I'm sure that it is rippling out to other markets now.

[Merlin_AZ]

My cousins just gave me my birthday present.

VW 15.

He pulled off the price tag just as I was removing it from the gift bag.

$100 !!!

I'm certainly going to enjoy it (and share it with him), but I'm a bit disappointed at some of the current prices.

[OscarV]

WOW! A hundred bucks for Pappy 15?!??!?!?!?

Get some Old Rip Van Winkle 10yo 107prf and you can thank me later.

[unclebunk]

WOW! A hundred bucks for Pappy 15?!??!?!?!?

Get some Old Rip Van Winkle 10yo 107prf and you can thank me later.

[BBQ+Bourbon]

I found a Lot B in Pittsburg Kansas today and was somewhat excited as it's scarce in KC. There was no price posted so I asked the girl to check. She gleefully replied from behind the register "Seventy-Seven Forty-Three!". Oh.

[tommyboy38]

$77.43? That's just wrong!!

I haven't seen to many big increases locally but one place did raise there prices to $60 for the 15 and $110 for 20. Won't be shopping there for awhile.

[Old Lamplighter]

What really burns me - and I know it is probably like beating a thrice-dead horse at this point - is when I see past year issues of BTAC as well as VW bottles that have been sitting there on the shelf for a few years and yet.....every blankety-blank, $#@^&!! year, the price goes up on these same bottles!!!:hot: And still, they sit there. I don't buy nothin in stores like that. Oh well, I guess those bottles will be the dusties of/for the next generation(s).:smiley_acbt:

[CorvallisCracker]

What really burns me - and I know it is probably like beating a thrice-dead horse at this point - is when I see past year issues of BTAC as well as VW bottles that have been sitting there on the shelf for a few years and yet.....every blankety-blank, $#@^&!! year, the price goes up on these same bottles!!!:hot: And still, they sit there. I don't buy nothin in stores like that. Oh well, I guess those bottles will be the dusties of/for the next generation(s).:smiley_acbt:

[Old Lamplighter]

Don't know how it is in other control states, but that's what happens here, and it's the OLCC that does it, not the store owner. They raise the price of BTAC every year, and it's in the fall, correlating with the new release, so I gues it's because BT is charging more for what they send to the OLCC. However the new price applies to ALL BTAC, including unsold ones from previous years.

I saw this happen with two unsold 2008 Handys, which went from $72 to $77 last fall.

[Parkersback]

The Van Winkle products are in NYC and going really fast. I bought both PVW15's at a place in Greenpoint and broke the cashier's heart in doing so. He was wanting one himself: why he hadn't grabbed it yet, I'm not sure. The price was a little high-ish, around $65, I think. But I couldn't afford to chance missing it. I already saw the place where it was around $56 sell out in about 2 days.

I'm still seeing Lot B's around: the best price I've seen is 49.99, which I think is pretty good for NYC.

If there are any SB'ers in NYC who want to find it at that price, PM me. It's in Brooklyn. (It's not BQE Liquors, my favorite store: for some reason, BQE haven't gotten any, while some smaller, slightly less "put-together" places got the VW and the BTAC stuff. But BQE has neither.)

[imbibehour]

If I was in DC I wouldn't be shopping for Van Winkle Lot B (even though I love it)

well some of us have no choice the price I found it at was... a little high, but I've seen Bookers even higher than the price I paid for Lot B today.. :grin:

[BradleyC]

There's a place in Galveston that has Lot B for $120. Then, they have the the 13 year Rye at $99. Go figure

[Parkersback]

There's a place in Galveston that has Lot B for $120. Then, they have the the 13 year Rye at $99. Go figure