Instead of waiting for 10 years on your return, how does this sound?
We can buy a cask of 1999 Cragganmore single malt whisky which should be ready to bottle as a 12 year old in about
2 years time. This would cost us to buy the cask now circa £1500. .
Two years from now (if we wanted it bottled as a 12 year old), we would have to pay a further (roughly) £4k which would be for
all bottling, Duty and VAT.
In total, roughly this venture would cost about £5.5k. Divided between 12 of us, that would amount to about £450 each. Please note that the initial outlay is only around £150 each, being the cost of actually buying the Hogshead cask. You'd then have about two years to save up for the balance (about £300)
Our cask would (again roughly) yield between 25 and 26 cases of cask strength whisky. 12 x 70cl bottles per case.
Therefore each syndicate member would get about 25 bottles of cask strength whisky for his/her money.
It works out about £18 per bottle of cask strength Cragganmore
Cragganmore is a Diageo single malt that they usually bottle at 12 years. It sells for about £30 at 43%. Our bottles would be around 58%. You might get an independent bottling at that strength but I'd guess that you'd pay between 40 and 50 quid for it. It's a top rated single malt.
I've spoken to Wully about this and we've agree to aim at buying a cask about the end of February/beginning of March so that gives syndicate members a chance to get Crimbo oot the way before parting with a hundred and fifty quid.
If anyone on the list doesn't fancy this now, please feel free to back out. I reckon it's a great deal but some might not fancy this particular whisky. The cask fill (make of whisky) isn't open to discussion now. Me and Whusky Wull have decided
It's still a definite 12 person syndicate. It's easier to control with that amount.
