A Scotch Dilemna

[Los Feliz Slim]

OK, so whiskey threads are the new tipping threads, I know. But all the scotch experts are here, so I'm giving it a shot. If it gets moved somewhere else, so be it.

Last week a client of mine gave me a bottle of Bowmore 25 year old Scotch. I looked it up online, it's around $280 at Bevmo. The problem is that I'm not a big Bowmore fan. The Bowmore Darkest Sherry Casked is supposed to be pretty good, and I couldn't stand it. My tastes run more towards Laphroaig, Talisker, etc: drier, less sweet, kick-you-in-the-teeth style scotch.

So, I figure I can just take this bottle to my local liquor store, where they know me ( [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]), and trade it for a high-end bottle I might like more. I go in there, and they say it's illegal and won't do it. But, in the process, they're like "Holy [censored], that's an unbelievable bottle of scotch, it's really hard to get, don't get rid of it, just keep it, it'll be worth five bills in two years." And I'm like, that's great, but I'd like to drink some damn scotch tonight and I'm not dropping $200 on a bottle myself.

Of course, all their raving about the scotch got me thinking that maybe I should just keep it and drink it. Sitting on it for a few years so I can sell it just seems odd to me, and then I've got to wait two years or whatever.

Ideas/thoughts? Anybody in LA want to buy a sweet bottle of scotch at a discount? In closing, here's something you don't see a lot of in the EDGD, a poll: