Well for 750 mega liters that seems like a reasonable price. About 28 m³ per unit of money! Buy buy buy!
For context 28 CBM is about the volume of a 20’ container.
Or a stacked pallet is about 1.8 CBM so about 15 standard height pallets.
Proof that Americans will use literally anything but metric:
Sorta. CBM is cubic meters and the entire world uses feet for shipping containers. For Intl logistics CBM and kg are the standard for volume and weight but they get loaded into containers measured in feet.
You’ll see similar stuff in other industries. Machining a lot of measurements are in mm but tolerances in “mils” or 1/1000 of an inch. Or medical where volume is in mL or drams.
When it comes to distance though I only really know miles.
Well, thank goodness it wasn’t 27,000.
That would be way too much!
I’ll wait for the * price tag… And a winning lottery ticket.
But seriously, a Scotch barreled in 1948? I didn’t know they aged anything that long.
Remy Martin’s Louis XIII is a blend of cognacs all aged between 40 and 100 years.
I’ve been lucky enough to try some, truly a flavour worth experiencing at least once if you can and like cognac. I still babble about it happily to strangers all the time…
Strictly speaking it’s “only” aged 51 years, these were released in 1999
27 Grand and the bottle just sits on the shelf?
- Pick up at register
Ah, thanks. Wasn’t wearing my glasses. :)
What currency is that?
The I’ve run out of diversity in my portfolio one
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The Kirkland branding is everywhere. I see it at the Australian stores.
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None of the Anglosphere currencies would make this anything other than the price of a car anyway. This is absolutely just a collector’s item for those with more money than sense, never expected to be actually drunk
There’s a bar in Chicago, Lady Gregory’s, that has a whiskey bible. They will sell you 40yo Scottish single-malt whiskey–they have multiple choices, including from distilleries that have been out of business longer than I’ve been alive–by the dram, at up to about $250 per dram (as of the last time I was there, in 2016). Assuming that they’re using the American standard dram measurement of 4ml/dram, that works out to up to $46,000 for an entire bottle.
I assume you’ve tripped up on your measurements somewhere, because 4 ml would be a very sad dram. A spirit measure in the UK is 25 ml, so you get 28 of those out of a 700 ml bottle for $7,000 at that bar.
Edit: upon looking it up, apparently a dram actually is 4 ml in America? In Scotland that’s just the word for a glass of whisky, assumed to be an approximate “one drink” rather than an actual specification of volume. If you offered someone a dram and poured them 4 ml here, they’d think you were the stingiest person since Ebenezer Scrooge
However bars mark drinks up like mad, and they will absolutely do so on extremely premium drinks because the only people buying those are people who do not care how much it costs. If you take $3 for a shot of a basic vodka, that’s $84 for the bottle, and there’s absolutely no way you’d pay $84 for that same bottle in a supermarket.
You definitely could spend seven grand on a 40 year old bottle of whisky if you went looking for one. This specific bottle is 51 years, but it’s commanding this price because it’s a very rare special edition from a big and popular distillery
There’s also a Kirkland near Montreal, so it could be Canada. But as it’s already been mentioned, it has nothing to do with location in this case.
I don’t think it can be Canada because the liquor part is separate from the main store.
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I doubt this is in the US. The key indicator for me is the Napa valley wine beside it. Unless Costco does things very differently, imported bottles are always grouped into the same aisle. Given that I’d guess its outside the US.
And there’s starving homeless in this world but 30k for a bottle ? Fuuuuuuuuuuu
They should start selling $30k bottles of booze.
What a deal! I’ll probably never taste it.
