Obree Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) Almost fell from my chair when I saw this. Came across an auction I generally follow to sometimes score bourbons we can hardly get over here in Europe. they have a Red Hook Rye up for auction, starting bid 21.000 EURO. They expect it to sell at between 24.000 and 30.000 EURO, about the same in USD these days! I will not be bidding https://www.gobourbon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_1354-3-696x522.jpg Edited December 30, 2022 by Obree 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anwalt Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Ouch. I have not followed the Dutch auctions. The UK ones I see tend to have bids that sell for the same amount, right down to the penny. With end prices being well into secondary market range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flahute Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 18 hours ago, Obree said: Almost fell from my chair when I saw this. Came across an auction I generally follow to sometimes score bourbons we can hardly get over here in Europe. they have a Red Hook Rye up for auction, starting bid 21.000 EURO. They expect it to sell at between 24.000 and 30.000 EURO, about the same in USD these days! I will not be bidding https://www.gobourbon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_1354-3-696x522.jpg It has sold for that in the past. Having tasted it I can tell you it's one of the best whiskies I've ever had. Would never pay that for a bottle however! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattk Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 7 hours ago, flahute said: It has sold for that in the past. Having tasted it I can tell you it's one of the best whiskies I've ever had. Would never pay that for a bottle however! I believe I've heard the story of that tasting. And it made me laugh pretty hard. Please tell it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flahute Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, Mattk said: I believe I've heard the story of that tasting. And it made me laugh pretty hard. Please tell it again. The story about the busted cork? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattk Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, flahute said: The story about the busted cork? Yes. Is terrible. But amazingly awesome and real. Therefore very funny. I laughed and learned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obree Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 Amazing it would get sold at prices like that. The starting bid on ths one was not met, guess we will have another go.....Please do share the story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flahute Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I tried to find my original post on this because there are two broken cork incidents under almost identical circumstances and we solved it differently each time base on the items we had on hand. I think I remember this one so here goes: I'm in a group called the Bourbon Crusaders and in addition to being a social club that picks barrels we also are a 501c3 non profit that organizes a charity auction every year. This happened at our very first one. It. was the year after Jim Rutledge retired from Four Roses and it was his 50th year in the industry and since 4R wasn't. doing anything to honor that milestone we decided to. In order to make it worthwhile for someone to buy a "gold ticket" (VIP) we needed to have some great bottles to pour for them. Red Hook Rye was one of them and nobody thought to be prepared. The event was at Mint Julep Tours (now called Mint on Mellwood) in Louisville. As we were opening bottles for the VIPs it happened - the LeNell's cork broke. We found a wine opener and tried to extract it but it was a crumbler so now the whiskey was full of cork bits. We panicked! We had Jim and other VIPs gathering for pours. We went into the little kitchen at the facility hoping that they had some kind of mesh filter. No luck. Looking around I saw it - a French Press coffee maker! We made sure it was clean and then very slowly poured out the whiskey over the top of the filter and into the carafe. Had to go slow so as not to overflow. Once we had collected all the cork bits on the filter, we rinsed out the bottle thoroughly and then because there were no funnels we had to again very slowly pour the whiskey back into the bottle. Crisis averted! We got the bottle back over to the VIP table just in time. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obree Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 On 1/2/2023 at 2:06 AM, flahute said: I tried to find my original post on this because there are two broken cork incidents under almost identical circumstances and we solved it differently each time base on the items we had on hand. I think I remember this one so here goes: I'm in a group called the Bourbon Crusaders and in addition to being a social club that picks barrels we also are a 501c3 non profit that organizes a charity auction every year. This happened at our very first one. It. was the year after Jim Rutledge retired from Four Roses and it was his 50th year in the industry and since 4R wasn't. doing anything to honor that milestone we decided to. In order to make it worthwhile for someone to buy a "gold ticket" (VIP) we needed to have some great bottles to pour for them. Red Hook Rye was one of them and nobody thought to be prepared. The event was at Mint Julep Tours (now called Mint on Mellwood) in Louisville. As we were opening bottles for the VIPs it happened - the LeNell's cork broke. We found a wine opener and tried to extract it but it was a crumbler so now the whiskey was full of cork bits. We panicked! We had Jim and other VIPs gathering for pours. We went into the little kitchen at the facility hoping that they had some kind of mesh filter. No luck. Looking around I saw it - a French Press coffee maker! We made sure it was clean and then very slowly poured out the whiskey over the top of the filter and into the carafe. Had to go slow so as not to overflow. Once we had collected all the cork bits on the filter, we rinsed out the bottle thoroughly and then because there were no funnels we had to again very slowly pour the whiskey back into the bottle. Crisis averted! We got the bottle back over to the VIP table just in time. Fantastic story! thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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