TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 20, 2018 Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 Interesting to see many people are being caught out and spending large amounts on fake Scotch. From BBC Scotland; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-46566703 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted December 20, 2018 Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 I would think this news about Scotlands most lucrative export, will do nothing to boost the SNP's independence ambitions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 Big money to be made - many years ago I knew a young couple that used to buy Tesco's cheapest plonk, several cases at a time, and, after soaking the labels off overnight in the bath, would replace them with some copied "up market" French wine label then sell cases to local Restaurants - they were making a killing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 43 minutes ago, bruno22rf said: Big money to be made - many years ago I knew a young couple that used to buy Tesco's cheapest plonk, several cases at a time, and, after soaking the labels off overnight in the bath, would replace them with some copied "up market" French wine label then sell cases to local Restaurants - they were making a killing. I am aware of that happening an awful lot. I am trying to remember which restaurant we were in last year and I recognised the wines had all come from Lidl. Now I drink some of their wines but not at over blown charges! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 years ago when i was still of some use to soceity....i took out the bods at British gas to Michael Caines resteraunt in London...there were 8 of us altogether......they gave us the wine menu...mate was reading them out and i said get a few bottles of so and so wine...as i had drunk some of that very recently bought from Asda at £8 quid a bottle.....anyway there we were quaffing the stuff like vimto...and the bottles kept coming with the food..... the visa (company visa) had a heartattack at the end of the meal...and on the way home i was looking at the breakdown....we were being charged £47.00 / bottle for the wine....and in Asda it was £8.00 a bottle............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 13 minutes ago, ditchman said: years ago when i was still of some use to soceity....i took out the bods at British gas to Michael Caines resteraunt in London...there were 8 of us altogether......they gave us the wine menu...mate was reading them out and i said get a few bottles of so and so wine...as i had drunk some of that very recently bought from Asda at £8 quid a bottle.....anyway there we were quaffing the stuff like vimto...and the bottles kept coming with the food..... the visa (company visa) had a heartattack at the end of the meal...and on the way home i was looking at the breakdown....we were being charged £47.00 / bottle for the wine....and in Asda it was £8.00 a bottle............. Michael 'blow the bloody doors off' Caine or Michael 'Chef with one hand' Caine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog1408 Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Penelope said: Michael 'blow the bloody doors off' Caine or Michael 'Chef with one hand' Caine? Neither, the chef's name is Michael Caines. if it had been the former it would have been Caine's. mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 I am at a complete loss to understand what would motivate anybody to pay those sort of prices in the first place for a bottle of whisky (or wine). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 9 minutes ago, Vince Green said: I am at a complete loss to understand what would motivate anybody to pay those sort of prices in the first place for a bottle of whisky (or wine). Vince I too share your opinion and can only surmise that it is people who like to show what they have bought, in a nutshell, just another type of willy waver! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Seadog1408 said: Neither, the chef's name is Michael Caines. if it had been the former it would have been Caine's. mike Pardon me, I'm sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billytheghillie Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Vince Green said: I am at a complete loss to understand what would motivate anybody to pay those sort of prices in the first place for a bottle of whisky (or wine). I have a client who drinks 2 bottles of Krug every luchtime, when he is with us for a week. About a £140 a bottle 😦 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 52 minutes ago, billytheghillie said: I have a client who drinks 2 bottles of Krug every luchtime, when he is with us for a week. About a £140 a bottle 😦 get him to wee on your tomatoes...........you could sell the crop at £30.00/kilo............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted December 21, 2018 Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 4 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Vince I too share your opinion and can only surmise that it is people who like to show what they have bought, in a nutshell, just another type of willy waver! Drink a bottle of whisky and you won't be able to anything with your willy except wave it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 On 21/12/2018 at 12:49, Vince Green said: I am at a complete loss to understand what would motivate anybody to pay those sort of prices in the first place for a bottle of whisky (or wine). At £4,000 a bottle are they really buying it to be drunk? Some people are buying it like art, to sit in a lockup or in storage whilst the price supposedly climbes and climbes ... until you find out it’s a fake 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 All tastes the same with coke init.........😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted December 26, 2018 Report Share Posted December 26, 2018 On 21/12/2018 at 12:49, Vince Green said: I am at a complete loss to understand what would motivate anybody to pay those sort of prices in the first place for a bottle of whisky (or wine). My sisters fella has done this, bought several bottles of whiskey over the years at crazy money saying its an investment? I would love for them to have a party a some point and someone walk in drinking from a bottle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 On 26/12/2018 at 13:55, Mice! said: My sisters fella has done this, bought several bottles of whiskey over the years at crazy money saying its an investment? I would love for them to have a party a some point and someone walk in drinking from a bottle. A good friend owns a drinks company. He gave a bottle of very nice and not too cheap whisky to a mate for his birthday. This mate made every drop count and the bottle was lasting well, it was the sort of whisky you drank slowly on your own. Perhaps with a cigar and the world seemed a better place for it. That was until a fateful bbq was held and another "mate" was pouring large ones out with coke. His face was a picture. How I laughed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, GingerCat said: A good friend owns a drinks company. He gave a bottle of very nice and not too cheap whisky to a mate for his birthday. This mate made every drop count and the bottle was lasting well, it was the sort of whisky you drank slowly on your own. Perhaps with a cigar and the world seemed a better place for it. That was until a fateful bbq was held and another "mate" was pouring large ones out with coke. His face was a picture. How I laughed. you would though wouldn't you, long time ago, probably New years eve my old fella and his mate were drinking Dimple while giving the mates wife grouse 😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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