Comments on: New Diageo whiskies: The Manager’s Choice

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:59:35 +0000

Why don’t you all learn that WHISKY made in Scotland is spelt WHISKY and not Whiskey before moaning about the price! After all you could drink old JD multi-filtered over priced rotgut that they don’t even print the age on the label….

By: Matt Richter

Matt Richter — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:50:10 +0000

So what? They came out with an expensive bottle. Did the price of the standard issue go up? I read a lot of bitching about how this is outrageous. I really like OBAN and had been given a bottle of the 32 year old 1969 by my wife. It wasn’t cheap but it was good! I’d nursed that sucker for about 4 years when my Dad drank the final 2.5 inches out of it while I was out. When I got back? “Matthew, that was a very nice Scotch!” What can I say? He put up with my teen years, so I’m happy he enjoyed it.

Most of my drinks are more the garden veriety, but then, they don’t last for years and years on the shelf. These have now been out for a couple years and some have very favorable reviews. I found the OBAN Managers Choice for 217 Pounds, down quite a bit from the 300 issue price (but I don’t know if that included VAT or not). Anyway, I also found many a review that say it’s an excellent Whisky! I’m hoping it is, cause this one won’t stay closed when I get my hands on it….

I just have to hide it from my Dad!

Matt

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:09:48 +0000

This month a few of these came up at auction and sold for $60 less than the original retail price. Not a big surprise.

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So, do you want me to review these or not? | What Does John Know? — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:48:45 +0000

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By: MaltMartyr

MaltMartyr — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:57:12 +0000

Bowmore, Deageo, Whyte & Mackay, etc. run the real risk of filling up a few distributors and retailers basements, who may have to sit on too much stock until the Highland Coos come home. This is not how you win friends & influence distributors. If and when they clear out with deep discounts, after a five to ten year sentence, I may look back at this ordeal differently. Moo

Bottles that are overpriced should be overlooked for a while by those retailers who want to keep their best buys and in demand stock moving off the shelves and in the public eye. These sit in the locked displays as retailer curios and museum pieces.

Distillers cannot create as much interest in the best distilleries ‘to the drinking public’ if they refuse to promote the dream bottles to the right crowd. This can only mothball and elminate them.

I have spent the equivalent or above. Howeever, If I can’t taste it, I rarely consider it unless it is a legendary bottling with a deep discount. Perhaps, then I can feel comfortable enough to open the bottle over one of the next fifteen years.

By: nicolas vaughn

nicolas vaughn — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:36:50 +0000

I think the people that complain about the prices don’t buy the whiskies! It is simple as that! There are plenty of whiskies for every budget and maybe, just maybe diageo is not after the common whisky drinker here with these releases. I am not worried about because i have better things to do with my money than spend 200-300 pounds on these release so i will find something that will fall within my budget.

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By: kallaskander

kallaskander — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:51:41 +0000

Hi there,

Serge has done a head to head of the first six releases of the MC.

http://www.whiskyfun.com/

The feature will wonder off the starting page with time.

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By: Steffen Bräuner

Steffen Bräuner — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:33:10 +0000

@Diaz

Well I would rather say that Diageo is producing a Fiat 500 and selling it at ferrari prices.

I am still boycoting all Diageo’s products and supporting suppliers who bottle stuff like this at affordable prices. Loads of distilleries can bottle single cask whisky at affordable prices. Use your power as consumer, Cause that’s what we are, and even thou I like Talisker 10 and the likes I can find plenty of good whisky from others

A lot here is supporting Diageo’s right to produce expensive releases and comparing them to wine industry

Noone of you is commenting on the fact that Diageo has millions of casks.. more than anyone else and could with ease bottle single casks at same prices as everyone else. But they don’t. Again the problem is not what Diageo is doing as much what they aren’t.

Macdeffe

By: H.Diaz

H.Diaz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:35:57 +0000

It says it right there, in the 3rd paragraph of Diageo’s press release, “the rare limited-edition series is aimed at collectors and connoisseurs….”.

These releases are not aimed for you, the regular/average Scotch drinker.

Just like that new fire engine red Ferrari is not aimed at you either.

By: mars

mars — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:25:12 +0000

Bad news for us and good news for diageo, 3 manager’s choice are sold out on the whisky exchange.
(but maybe they had only one bottle of each)

MARS

By: two-bit cowboy

two-bit cowboy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:51:25 +0000

I guess Diageo’s 2008 marketing strategy wasn’t as good as they thought. Last year when I ordered the Distiller’s Editions, the word I got back was, “NO ALLOCATION FOR (my state).”

I found out last week that (my state) will receive ten cases each of three of the 2008 Distiller’s Editions. Guess they didn’t sell as well in the major markets as Diageo planned, eh?

Does this mean that next year (my state) will receive allocations for all the Manager’s Choice whiskies that Diageo couldn’t pawn off elsewhere? Not likely, but hey, it could happen.

By: kallaskander

kallaskander — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:50:06 +0000

Hi there,

hello John W

the pdf you are looking for …

I had found it here

https://www.lfw.co.uk/diageo/The_Managers_Choice.pdf

but it is no longer there.

It seems Loch Fyne Whiskies was the only site to put up that link to that pdf file which was not meant for the public it would appear.

If you contact me via pm at Whisky Magazine forum or the whiskwhiskwhisky forum I could help you out.