Enjoying a wee dram...

Can you believe that I once drank, aided and abetted by my wife, a bottle of single malt whisky valued at £22,000 (approx $40,000)!!!!

In 1960 we were on honeymoon in Cornwall, staying at a hotel in Mullion Cove, when we decided to have a look around the town of Penzance. Wandering around the shops we came across a small grocery store and inside we found a bottle of single malt whisky.

It was very expensive at £12.50, but what the hell we thought this was a special occasion so we bought it and carried our prize back to the hotel where over two to three days we drank it, enjoyed it and thought no more about it… until…

Last year a single bottle of twenty year old Macallan fetched £20,000 in auction, this year a second bottle of twenty year old Macallan fetched £22,000 in auction.

Yes, that’s what it was wot we drank! Please excuse the tear stains.