London Heathrow Duty Free - The Journey Home

[@whiskywithmolly8974]

Hats off to the Heathrow Duty Free whisky team. They really tried their best to sell you something! 🤣🤣

[@WhiskyMystery]

Haha they did

[@officialthetubeofyou]

Sadly without much knowledge about whisky.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@officialthetubeofyou They are just not at our 'nerd' level

[@officialthetubeofyou]

@@WhiskyMystery Last time I was at terminal 5 and there was a sales assistance called Juan. He was way better than those in your video.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@officialthetubeofyou Fair enough

[@MayhemInMayberry]

Fantastic, thank you for taking us along. What an adventure.👍

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers Carl

[@JayeshPatel.Nilkanth]

Very informative thanks

[@brewcrewbill]

I see Deepa has my whisky buying impulse control (or lack thereof) too! Love it!

[@WhiskyMystery]

haha Glass cabinet!

[@brewcrewbill]

@@WhiskyMystery One of my many weaknesses, the glass cabinet always tempts me.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@brewcrewbill Got to look

[@redsox367]

Love these type of videos, window shopping 😃 Dont remember heathrow duty free being that interesting!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Yeah I was impressed

[@drewfromaz7740]

@@WhiskyMystery it has been over 5 years since I have been through Heathrow but seem to remember a World of Whisky shop in one of the terminals (5?)? Really enjoyed you scoping this out!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers

[@rishabhsaluja4921]

Enjoyed every second of this video

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers

[@melissa7867]

What a trip! Glad you both are feeling better and thank you for the videos! Welcome home!🥃😊

[@WhiskyMystery]

Thanks Melissa

[@scottallen8292]

Hi guys, Just got around to watching this. Last time through Heathrow we did not have time to look around. Like you we had a bunch of whisky in our suitcase. Interesting to see the travel specials. Cheers!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Worth a look at least

[@roba7345]

Loved the sales pitches: “GlenDronach is different to all the other Glens…” 🤣 I would have been seriously tempted by the Bunnahabhain!

[@WhiskyMystery]

I could have had more fun with that pitch

[@TJO1913]

A timely browse through Heathrow duty free. I'll be passing through in two weeks so this was a great preview. Doubt that I'll be picking up that 33 y.o. Craigellachie though. Spied a Glenturret 12 in an Amsterdam shop's online site. That just may make it in my suitcase. Welcome home✈✈✈.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers. Good bottles to browse at least

[@albertmiller3082]

Hard to believe any distiller is still bottling 40abv expressions… happy to learn the journey back was uneventful and successful all the way around. Great conclusion to a wonderful journey. Thank you both for letting us join the tour, memorable times wall to wall.

[@WhiskyMystery]

I did miss out the bit where the rental car was smashed during overnight parking making it undrivable :-)

[@albertmiller3082]

@@WhiskyMystery oh good grief! Well… at least no whisky spilled, I trust. Stay well!

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@albertmiller3082 Nothing else in the car thankfully.

[@stefanlehnert2902]

Thanks for the great Videos. The best content on youtube. Happy that the trip ended well for you and you managed the way through to the highlights. Wish I was there too. Only two hour flight for me to scotland but you need time. Hope I can find the time in the nearer future. Caperdonich was a great distillery. Have some Old Malt Cask ones in my collection. Tastewhise I love the peated Caperdonichs. Had a few of them. I love the peat style a lot. The green box in the shop of the 21 year old shows the unpeated style. The peated ones come in grey. 18, 21, 25 and 30 I think, peated and unpeated versions. 18 and 21 peated are fantastic drams. Would be interesting for you too I think. The 18 is affordable too. But also happy that you are back home and the weekly Lives can go on 🙂 Can not wait to see the unboxing of the bags.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Thanks as Stefan. It was an eventful trip

[@dipakkhetani9781]

Nice video. Thanks for sharing. I am indian🇮🇳.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers India!

[@gauravmalhotra2272]

Excellent video 👍

[@WhiskyMystery]

Thanks

[@thegeneral123]

Useful as I will be flying via LHR to JFK in Dec and wanted to pick something nice up for myself for the holiday.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Pretty good selection at Heathrow.

[@thegeneral123]

@@WhiskyMystery Unless I missed it though, no Laphroaig? What terminal was this? I'll be in 5.

[@wwolf5670]

I'd be all over that Lagavulin 10! Great video. Thanks for sharing!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Some good ones in there

[@richardagnew4959]

Will be travelling through Heathrow in July. I must resist ... I must resist ... :P

[@WhiskyMystery]

But still look

[@foodquig]

You had more fun at Heathrow than I did...

[@WhiskyMystery]

Surprisingly good selection

[@davidowen2834]

An interesting duty free (travel retail?) look around video. Glad you got back home safely, slàinte to you both.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers

[@GregsWhiskyGuide]

Interesting...To answer your question, Glen Deveron & The Deveron are the official brand names of Macduff distillery a coastal Eastern Highlands distillery founded in 1960. It belongs to the Bacardi group which owns Craigellachie too for instance. That blue box/label Glen Scotia is the "1832" version for travel retail, one of my favorite whisky label & bottle too...It is a slightly different than the "Double-Cask" recipe but basically also ex-Bourbon & ex-PX Sherry, you should have taken one ! I have it home but alas no reserve bottle...The 2017 batch is beautiful, dont know about those from now...Cheers !

[@WhiskyMystery]

Thanks Greg. Always more to learn

[@GregsWhiskyGuide]

@@WhiskyMystery oh yeah, me too...forgot to say I pretty much doubt that the Caperdonich is not coloured, imho....this colour is suspect, especially the reflections/look of it...I'm usually good to guess these things...

[@simonjones918]

Thanks for this, I’m passing through next month - might pick up a bottle. The Bowmore and Glendronach look interesting. 🙂

[@WhiskyMystery]

I was almost tempted by the Bowmore

[@kapilkk06]

Excellent 🎉🍻

[@WhiskyMystery]

Thanks

[@primewhisky]

The Bowmore 23y is amazing you should have bought it😋😋 I paid a little less though 330usd

[@WhiskyMystery]

Yeah I was close on that one

[@joeappleton6849]

Nice review Kool stuff

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers

[@ironmantran]

Finally, a duty-free with GOOD prices ! !

[@WhiskyMystery]

And impressive selection

[@prioritasko]

I hope you are joking. It is quite overpriced except few bottles.

[@ironmantran]

@@prioritasko (( aye, the way scotches are priced, i am going RUM ...))

[@martincaravati9417]

Brilliant! Glad you made it back safely! I’ll be passing thru LHR a bit later this month. Surprised to see a Caperdonich in travel retail! Are any of your acquisitions going in the blind tasting? 🥃

[@WhiskyMystery]

No more bottles being added to the blind bottles but we might do some one off blind line ups

[@Tantrum777]

I hope you had a great trip, certainly looked like you had a good time. Besides that pesky Covid bug of course.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Besides the few set backs it was well worth it.

[@Vaishnavi_Katapally]

Hi ,I have a question can we carry bottles in checkin bag and how many bottles can we carry in each in bag?

[@WhiskyMystery]

5 liters of spirits per checked in bag. Weight becomes an issue. What your allowed to bring into the destination country is a separate question

[@JackBlack-ii1ip]

The only Duty Free that offered anything like a good deal was Moscow. Bangkok prices were so high that it would have been cheaper to go to a supermarket here in Japan.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Duty free does seem to be like that now

[@RebMordechaiReviews]

I was listening intently to what he was saying about the Caperdonich 21, up until he used the word "smooth", then I switched off.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Haha understood

[@javierbrito4436]

Curious, but whisky are cheaper at chilean supermarkets than in different Duty Frees. Though the varietyoffered is by far better at Heathrow.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Every country has its own tax system. But yeah duty free are no very cheap

[@javierbrito4436]

@@WhiskyMystery seems they once were. This week I visited DFs at Dominican Republic, Panama and Chile, and chilean supermarkets are cheaper, except for cigarretes. O% in customs tariff do help.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Give me some examples of your supermarket prices. Pisco still a popular drink?

[@javierbrito4436]

@@WhiskyMystery Chivas 12 years 1 Lt, £ 27,37. Johnnie Walker Black 1 Lt, £ 26,93. Glenfiddich 12 y 1 Lt, £ 43,29

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@javierbrito4436 Pretty similar to US prices in CA

[@ddreese]

So you got waived through customs and didn't have to pay any duties?

[@WhiskyMystery]

Correct. I declared 16 Liters and they said it was a small amount of duty and I was free to go. This happened two years ago also.

[@ddreese]

@@WhiskyMystery I always thought over a liter you had to pay the duty on entrance. Interesting. I'm not much of a whiskey drinker, but I'm collecting bottles to have an Irish Whiskey tasting in the near future. My dad was a scotch drinker, but his go-to was Chivas Regal, he liked the cheaper blends over the GlenFiddich I bought him.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@ddreese Technically yes over 1L you must declare or risk losing it. But the duty is so small it is not worth the trouble to collect. They appreciate the honesty of declaring though.

[@DileepB]

How much duty did you have to pay for whisky above the allowed amount?

[@WhiskyMystery]

Zero. I declared everything and they said the duty was not worth collecting as it is only a few $

[@DileepB]

@@WhiskyMystery I usually declare the value of the booze along with other purchases instead of the number of bottles. My purchases are nowhere near the value of yours.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@DileepB Value is not how they work it out. It is a fixed duty cost per litre of spirit. Very small.

[@DileepB]

@@WhiskyMystery Thanks. Good to know.. I have only brought 7 or 8 bottles on our last trip. The last 3 were purchased at LHR Duty Free! Best prices were in Gibraltar!

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@DileepB Yeah Duty free is not really a bargain

[@NurseDave]

Welcome home!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Thanks Dave

[@saschaoswald480]

Some interesting bottles that I haven't seen before! Made me think of the clip from the TV show "Parks & Recreation" where the character Ron Swanson goes to a Lowes hardware store.....kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3bLeXiFfr6ag7s Phil was much more subtle with his hints😉 Looking forward to the "un-bagging" of the whisky!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Haha yes I did hold back a bit :-)

[@liamfraserrichardson2969]

I thought of the exact same clip!

[@martincaravati9417]

Love the cat and mouse when the buyer knows more than the seller.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@martincaravati9417 hehe

[@eviltrain24]

welcome back!

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers

[@johnpeterdean1653]

Since there is 70% duty on Whisky why is it so expensive in the "Duty Free". You can buy it cheraper in Tesco's

[@WhiskyMystery]

It has been a very long time since duty free meant a good deal

[@chantchant8232]

Cant find the johnny walker ghost and rare at heathrow 😢

[@WhiskyMystery]

Lots of better value than JW

[@MichaelS_MathanDearg]

Oooooo, a Craigellachie cliffhanger! :-)

[@WhiskyMystery]

:-)

[@chuntinglam2610]

You are a lucky guy

[@WhiskyMystery]

Yes Cheers

[@graham2954]

They are trying to punt Caperdonich in Duty Frees all over the world.😀

[@WhiskyMystery]

Is it any good?

[@graham2954]

@@WhiskyMystery I don't know, never bought one. I'd seen it in Dubai and Perth and maybe also Frankfurt. I got a springbank 15yo in koln, a laphroaig 10yo cask strength in Frankfurt and an Ardbeg corryvreckan on the way back through perth. I sometimes laugh when the sales rep, and i know they're just trying to make a living, try to educate me on Whisky and make a sale Come from Scotland and have drank whisky for over 30 years.

[@pskalsi76]

👍

[@sav7568]

Heathrow is NOT a good place to shop for whisky. Watch out for the red tags which indicate a special but regular price items can be quite expensive. You can often buy cheaper retail.

[@WhiskyMystery]

It was a lot better than San Francisco duty free. The Bowmore 23 was a cheaper price than anywhere else online. We didnt buy anything though.

[@sidharthajain1951]

Sir have u travelled Bangkok dutyfree

[@WhiskyMystery]

I have not

[@frankhayward6758]

Essencia is very sweet Hungarian Tokaj

[@WhiskyMystery]

Ah thanks Frank

[@clivebaxter6354]

cheaper in Sainsburies!

[@WhiskyMystery]

How much is the Bowmore 23 there?

[@clivebaxter6354]

@@WhiskyMystery 31 quid

[@WhiskyMystery]

😀

[@leejaybrown5567]

Bless him lol

[@WhiskyMystery]

haha

[@HenricMadsen]

I was at this shop the other day and the staff was even worse than in this video. Pushy and clueless even on the most basic level.

[@WhiskyMystery]

He did try to convince me that the Glendronach had four casks... Pedro and Ximenez being the first two :-)

[@ΑντωνηςΜανωλαγκας]

Glad l don't drink alcohol,prices😀

[@WhiskyMystery]

True

[@lukashavel7690]

Welcome home! Welcome to the home of your booze as well! :)

[@WhiskyMystery]

Glad it made it back

[@wayne-rice]

You should've bought that Bowmore 21 it's doubled in a year

[@WhiskyMystery]

Not when they are open.

[@Loot_Train]

How did you not look at any bourbon 🥃

[@WhiskyMystery]

Don’t be silly

[@johnbluett6079]

£5 Drop off CRAP

[@WhiskyMystery]

Haha

[@nikmansol]

You should have bought something

[@WhiskyMystery]

We had 22 bottles in our checked luggage.