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There's no alcohol on this planet worth 27k.
I'm not saying this MacAllen is an escape of this, but there are plenty of people who buy and keep whiskey as an investment asset, and it can be pretty reliable by all accounts.
So I guess it could be 'worth' 27k in some sense, just not to drink it. The most expensive whiskey I tried was I think £1000 bottle (sample at a whiskey festival, I didn't buy it), and it just tasted like pencil sharpenings to me.
Seriously, let's talk about how almost nobody has an opinion on rip van winkle.
At some point the price becomes the selling point. Cognac became hugely popular among US rappers and basketball players because they would go to a nightclub and order the most expensive bottle to show off.
Yeah, and even beyond that you often find at very high price points it's about it being something to give or to mark special occasions.
Sure the rich probably aren't drinking Johnny Walker black and standard Buffalo Trace like I am, but their standard drink is probably just a price point above, and some of them probably are. They're likely drinking recently bottled single cask whiskies and stuff like Japanese whisky. When you get to "special occasion for the middle class" price points you get a lot of variety in amazing options
Sounds ripe for liberation
The libation liberation.
There are people in this world who value money as bout as much as you value a single breath of air
Not at all? I don't get it
You do. Rich people don't actually care about money, conspicuous consumption is performative for them