Threshold for Cracking Open A Special Bottle

[WAINWRIGHT]

We will be building our home later this year and after all the fights and stress,you bet your ass I will be opening something well deserved!

[IowaJeff]

I'm not much of a hoarder and generally have a pretty low threshold for opening a special bottle up, but I just can't bring myself to open up the AH Hirsch just yet. I don't know when it will be, maybe, like wheatfield, it will be a Wednesday before going to the post office. But its not today, and probably not tomorrow.

[VT Mike]

I wouldn't say that I collect, but I buy faster than I drink, so I do seem to have a collection. I got to the point of having too many open bottles, so some time in the last year I put a moratorium on opening new bottles while I try to polish off some of the open ones. The only exception I've really made has been when I needed to open one because I wanted to write a blog post about it. Some of the more special ones I'm sitting on include:

EH Taylor Warehouse C Tornado Surviving

Van Winkle 12yr

Bruichladdich Legacy 33 yr

Glen Garioch Small Batch, distilled 1994 (last year before they switched to unpeated malt) bottled 2011

Kilchoman Sherry Cask Release (bought at the distillery)

2012 Springbank Whisky School graduation bottle

I don't usually open bottles for special occasions, but that last one I might crack open on May 4th - the one year anniversary of completing the Springbank Whisky School.

[wripvanwrinkle]

For me, bottles get opened when a visitor wants to try them. A Detroit member's words stick in my mind. When I asked him if a particular bottle was open, he responded "Do you want it to be?"

(Go Green, my brother.)

Edited April 4, 2013 by wripvanwrinkle

[Special Reserve]

For me, bottles get opened when a visitor wants to try them. A Detroit member's words stick in my mind. When I asked him if a particular bottle was open, he responded "Do you want it to be?"

(Go Green, my brother.)

Green went, this weekend it's Go Blue!

[awachatz]

Green went, this weekend it's Go Blue!

Go blue indeed!

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[savagehenry]

I held a bottle of PVW23 for about 8 months before opening, and when I did I found it to be a relief.

I no longer had that "I can't open that, it's special" feeling. Two weeks later or so it was empty, and it went in the recycle bin like any other bottle.

[Danger]

Like many others have said, there doesn't need to be a reason other than wanting the whiskey in your mouth. I can't keep my bottles sealed for the life of me - I have about 12 at any one time and they are all open. That said, I have certainly bought special bottles for a specific occasion - graduation, engagement etc.

[MarkRuck]

I wouldn't say that I collect, but I buy faster than I drink, so I do seem to have a collection. I got to the point of having too many open bottles, so some time in the last year I put a moratorium on opening new bottles while I try to polish off some of the open.

Mike - I seem to have that problem also.

I don't need a special occasion to open a bottle. I've opened a VVOF 12 just because it arrived in the mail.

Whiskey is for drinking, and sharing it is even better!

[VT Mike]

Mike - I seem to have that problem also.

I don't need a special occasion to open a bottle. I've opened a VVOF 12 just because it arrived in the mail.

Whiskey is for drinking, and sharing it is even better!

I agree, and if I feel the need to drink something special on a special occasion, I usually have at least a few special bottles already opened that I'm more than happy to revisit.

[The Boozer]

In the same vain as others - this morning I opened my eyes, good enough reason to open any bottle.

Like VTMike - my pattern is I have too many open bottles, drink those to deplete the supply, panic I don't have enough open and start opening more bottles. Rinse & repeat.

[bllygthrd]

Whiskey is for drinking, and sharing it is even better!

Couldn't agree more ... the only reason I wait to open a bottle is because I want to share it with others so they can enjoy the experience.