1/2 - The Malt Collector with Charlie MacLean 

My collection is mostly a drinking collection and I occasionally sell when the value of a whisky gets too high for me to drink it or when I find out that a whisky I have one or several bottles of is not to my taste. And still I have to disagree with people saying they don't want others to collect just for fun. It's their money, their property. What they do with it after purchase is nothing you have to worry about. The only problem I have with that is the same problem as anywhere: people with more money than they can spend can just buy it all up and at the same time profit from the vacuum they have caused. But that's not a collection problem, that's a general problem of income inequality. And more income meaning more power and even easier generated future income. That's the real problem, not the way different people collect differently.

I’m firmly of the drink and enjoy school. I find collecting whisky or wine like keeping a Stadivarius in its case or a vintage Ferrari in a museum. It is dismaying that everything these days should have a financial price. A good dram, especially with friends, for me is beyond price and happily there are some single malts that I enjoy which don’t cost hundreds of pounds. Each to their own though and thank you Sir for helping me to learn more about appreciate Single Malt over the years.

Collectors, especially the ones that don't drink, drive up the price. Call it a hobby or whatever you like, but that's not right.

great vid

Bells has the best label its classic and clean

many would agree

If a whisky/whiskey is not drunk, it is a whisky/whiskey wasted

@Wayfarer8 Ha...good advice...where are those 15p bottles?

He's far too kind to thimble collectors.

I think collecting whisky is a kind of misunderstanding (or twisting) of the purpose of whisky. It should be drunk with friends in a merry atmosphere (sort of enjoy the moment attitude) rather then be put on a shelf and collect dust. I understand the value and money and hobby behind it but still...

First you should spent couple hundreds of pounds to come to Scotland)) And then you will have the ability to buy a 15 p. bottle)