Store Tour - The Vintage House, Soho

[@richcole3931]

£300 for Springbank 15 must be some kind of record. That's bananas.

[@WhiskyMystery]

And not sold

[@alfiefranklin7831]

What a shop! The prices look like they vary wildly, but a cracking video, thank you, enjoy your next whisky stop 😊

[@WhiskyMystery]

Always worth a look

[@tiredoffools8929]

Thank you for sharing! Always a delight to see the shops from your point of view.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Cheers

[@sandrofazzolari8833]

Great shop, excellent selection! Thanks 🙏 ciao S.

[@TJames69]

Crazy selection 🤯

[@peathead4450]

Thanks for sharing 👌👏

[@stefanlehnert2902]

Great store tour. That is a fantastic shop. You missed the Port Ellen 🙂

[@WhiskyMystery]

Tried to ignore them

[@stefanlehnert2902]

@@WhiskyMystery 😊

[@JazznRealHipHop]

Some beautiful bottles.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Yep

[@RebMordechaiReviews]

Thanks for the video. What a weird window display they have. At 4:16 I saw that they had some old Glenmorangie bottles from before the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy era. I am actually looking for 10 YO from the early 2000s. I already have the 15 and 18 from 2005. A 10 YO from that era would make a set, as it were. Prices for the 10 vary greatly. I would liked to have seen the price they were offering.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Ah did not catch it

[@RebMordechaiReviews]

10:17 £159 for the Kilkerran 8 Ex-Bourbon 😮😮 They were selling these in Israel for 220 Shekels (£45). I bought loads of them and drank them all !😏 I have one bottle left, un-opened.🙄

[@DonnerPassWhisky]

Great stuff! SOHO did you go to Milroys after? 😊

[@WhiskyMystery]

Not enough time

[@GregsWhiskyGuide]

Seen that shop several times, their choice is insane indeed...funny how you passed by the dozens of Broras (up) & Port Ellens (mid height) without a mention & later on noticed one at direct eye sight....The shop is great but shelves are a bit dark & dusty so sometimes hard to see what's inside, especially at low level...Did you went off safe or got you sometihng there ? I wonder...Cheers !

[@WhiskyMystery]

It is hard to see everything while recording :-)

[@GregsWhiskyGuide]

@@WhiskyMystery Sure...

[@WhiskyMystery]

The red ones at the top at 4:37 are Strathmill, Benrinnes, Dufftown, Glen Elgin etc.

[@GregsWhiskyGuide]

@@WhiskyMystery oh ok the are special Diageo releases while I thought it was only the Brora Special releases, my mistake !

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@GregsWhiskyGuide Anyway they would have been very expensive if they were.

[@foodquig]

Thst's the shop where I got Ardbeg Dark Cove in 2019 with the help of JasonWhiskyWise...

[@WhiskyMystery]

I wonder what todays price would be

[@ahpadt]

this shop hasnt just nosed dived, but titanic'd compared to 'early covid' days. i went in the other day and am shocked at the 'dice rolling' prices they give everything. they can probably live off punters buying champagne on weekends.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Certainly some high prices

[@ahpadt]

@@WhiskyMystery i got my backup sb15 from them in 2020 for pretty much rrp. Just look at it now in comparison.

[@WhiskyMystery]

Things will revert to the mean price eventually

[@hicksy771]

Prices may be hit and miss but can't fault their range.

[@WhiskyMystery]

True

[@moelassus]

OMG, £160 for the Kilkerran 8yo 55.7% bourbon cask. I would totally pay that to get another bottle. I only paid $80 for my first three bottles but I'm down to the last one.

[@ahpadt]

Cheaper on SWA..

[@moelassus]

@@ahpadt No doubt but I'm in the US so shipping is brutal. Plus they don't ship to my state so I'd have to make arrangements.

[@topshelfdustin3060]

That old 8 bourbon kills the new one the just put out.

[@moelassus]

@@topshelfdustin3060 I love the more balanced flavors of the earlier bourbon casks. The new one is more like their heavily peated releases. It's good but that 55.7 was divine.

[@topshelfdustin3060]

@@moelassus yeah, I was thinking that too. The new one comes off as their heavy peated (which isn't it).

[@shadowr6348]

Ouch....London prices! Springbank above 12 yr cask strength is now out of reach. I remember you traded your local barleys, a good move

[@WhiskyMystery]

Still have a health local barley stash. I think prices will come down agsin

[@RebMordechaiReviews]

@@WhiskyMystery Really? You honestly think prices for these Springbanks will come down? Perhaps they may stop doubling in price every year, but go down? Hmmmmmm🤔

[@WhiskyMystery]

You don’t think there is a recession coming? Where people worry more about paying the bills that whisky? That is my take. Auction prices for Springbank peaked more than a year ago

[@RebMordechaiReviews]

@WhiskyMystery Well, Ralfy keeps talking about an imminent crash. It's true that only a fool would believe any market can continue to go up indefinitely. However, I am not sure that recession will impact upon whisky investment prices. Retail prices are going up in Europe and America. This raises resell and auction prices. If there is a market bust, then it will be with products which had no intrinsic value in the first place and high prices were due to hype. I'm thinking Ardbeg, Diageo (Talisker for instance) special bottlings, Macallan, etc. I could be wrong, but Springbank's intrinsic value might protect it against general down turns.

[@WhiskyMystery]

You might be right. But if you look at SWA price graph you can see the dropping for a year. www.scotchwhiskyauctions.com/auctions/189-the-144th-auction/663742-springbank-2010-10-year-old-local-barley/

[@Seoul_of_bourbon]

I looked all over town and saw such few IB Craigelllachie. Kind of disappointing. It's a good thing I found the 19 at duty free.

[@WhiskyMystery]

They are not common

[@Watchman999]

Holy distant cowshed batman. 300 quid for Springbank 15??????? I felt nauseous after I paid 110 here in Calgary. Now I feel like a champ. :).

[@WhiskyMystery]

haha well done

[@robertzemko6590]

I still have my Springbank 15 from Calgary which I purchased in April 2019 for about $111 Canadian. Have a couple 10's as well $82 and $95 at the time.

[@Watchman999]

@@robertzemko6590 lucky you. Not so lucky me.

[@seanzeng]

That Imperial is a bargain!

[@WhiskyMystery]

🤑

[@crystalmethshrimp]

Does the SB15 come with a kick in the teeth for that price? I'm paying $260 CAD for mine which is about 150 pounds.

[@WhiskyMystery]

And still expensive

[@robertzemko6590]

Here in Onterrible (sic) we are very used to kicks in the teeth not to mention other area's, The LCBO only sells at retail however they get around that by not bothering to get anything interesting or desirable ( for example no Springbank at all in over 4 yrs) and charging the highest retail anywhere. There has been the odd exception but it comes and then goes quickly and may never come back, overall worst selection of whisky I have ever seen anywhere in the world but hey they have a million bottles of Johnnie Walker etc.

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@robertzemko6590 That does sound pretty terrible

[@crystalmethshrimp]

@@robertzemko6590 Yup, the only thing half decent at my local LCBO is a Craigellachie 17 for $200. Picked up my first real scotch at costco in LA last year, it was an Oban 14 for $ 65 USD. It's now $125 USD at the LCBO. I have 2 bottles I want to swap but they never have anything good. Last decent bottle was a kilkerran 12 over a year ago and yes, over a million bottles of Glen-Walkers.

[@steveno7058]

Yikes. Museum prices for anything decently rare. Looking more like the American Bourbon scene with bottles going 300% over MSRP

[@WhiskyMystery]

Haha true