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17th April 2020, 08:52 AM
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Whisky (he real stuff)
Fancy a bottle of 1926 Macallan, it's reckoned to be the finest whisky ever produced, a bottle is going onsale at auction later today. A similar bottle let year went for £1.5m, they recon today it will sell for £1.6m.
Bit out of my price range (lol).
Vic
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17th April 2020, 09:01 AM
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Re: Whisky (he real stuff)
Wow. That's some docking bottle!
Last edited by John Gill; 17th April 2020 at 09:03 AM.
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18th April 2020, 01:22 AM
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Re: Whisky (he real stuff)
Hi Vic.
Wish I had kept a bottle of my five shilling Penfold's plonk, 1949 vintage, would have given it a run for the money.
Des
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18th April 2020, 06:23 AM
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Mate, that Penfolds stuff would give you the runs at any time if enough drunk.
Bit like going to the Tiki Hok bar in Cape Town when you had to resort to 'Penfolds'.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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18th April 2020, 07:44 AM
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Re: Whisky (he real stuff)
Ginger squares upstairs in Delmonicos.
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18th April 2020, 10:27 AM
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Re: Whisky (he real stuff)
Knew about ginger squares I always called the Brandy and ginger as such. However didn’t know about the upstairs, always thought I got drunk coming out of Delmonicos must have been that way going in. Did the Playhouse in Durban have an upstairs as well ? JS
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18th April 2020, 10:53 AM
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#6 don't recall Durban much, probably recovering from Cape Smoke and district#6.😟
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19th April 2020, 03:32 AM
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Re: Whisky (he real stuff)
All I remember about Durban, is the lot of us getting drunk for two days holding the ship up, getting beaten up by the police in a compound, back on board anchored in the harbour, dropping the gash bucket on the police launch, refusing to sail as there were two blokes in hospital.
Des
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