I remember how I bought a bottle of 17 years old Ardbeg for £29.75 from the Port Ellen Spar on my first trip to Islay in 2001. It must be over 20 years since that 17 years old was even available. If there’s a bottle out there somewhere, it must cost a four or five figure amount of £s.

A friend of mine has a saying ”life is too short to waste it drinking bad whiskies”. I’d love to follow that principle, but it’s getting pretty expensive.