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<blockquote data-quote="Laner" data-source="post: 252453" data-attributes="member: 1932"><img src="http://www.whiskyintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Macallan-1824.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Macallan in the UK and Canada have moved into this new direction. I went to a private release last night where they explained the reasoning behind the change. They do not have enough whisky to fill their orders for the 10,12 yo etc. Not to blame the Chinese entirely, but with the lagging London real estate market, they have been buying scotch by the thousands of barrels. A guy in Hong Kong just payed $700,000 for a single bottle of Macallan last week. Well, as Chinese tend to do, they are sitting on their barrels, driving the price of it up hoping for a bubble. The private event last night was about 60% Chinese, most having just flown over for the event from China. My table was all Chinese except me, and according to their translator they were all super elite men. The USA is still going to do the 10, 12 etc as they refused to make the change. Apparently the USA luxury market needs a lot of peer approval so they need a 21yo in big letters on their bottles and will refuse to change that. Interesting night. The Sienna was my favorite, followed by the Ruby then Gold.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laner, post: 252453, member: 1932"] [img]http://www.whiskyintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Macallan-1824.jpg[/img] Macallan in the UK and Canada have moved into this new direction. I went to a private release last night where they explained the reasoning behind the change. They do not have enough whisky to fill their orders for the 10,12 yo etc. Not to blame the Chinese entirely, but with the lagging London real estate market, they have been buying scotch by the thousands of barrels. A guy in Hong Kong just payed $700,000 for a single bottle of Macallan last week. Well, as Chinese tend to do, they are sitting on their barrels, driving the price of it up hoping for a bubble. The private event last night was about 60% Chinese, most having just flown over for the event from China. My table was all Chinese except me, and according to their translator they were all super elite men. The USA is still going to do the 10, 12 etc as they refused to make the change. Apparently the USA luxury market needs a lot of peer approval so they need a 21yo in big letters on their bottles and will refuse to change that. Interesting night. The Sienna was my favorite, followed by the Ruby then Gold. [/QUOTE]

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