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[Orangeblood suggested the Quacks forum for this post; if it's not the right place for it, mods please put it where it belongs.]
The Twin Liquors at 5505 Balcones Drive has a red dot 30% clearance on some of their whisky (aka "Scotch"). While browsing the other day I noticed the name "Cadenhead" seemed to be on almost all of the red dot bottles--of which there were quite a few. In response to my query the clerk explained that Cadenhead is pulling out of the US market, which resulted in this clearance sale.
I was not familiar with the Cadenhead name, but learned they are a bottler, not a producer. That means you can buy Highland Park-produced whisky bottled by Cadenhead, for example, and so on for perhaps dozens of other names.
There were numerous variations of vintage-dated whisky and both "regular" and "cask strength" options.
Not being familiar with Cadenhead I could not tell whether the prices were really a bargain or not. The one example I noted was Cadenhead's bottling of 10 year old Highland Park aged in sherry casks for about $40 net. Highland Park's own 12 year old was in the low 30s (perhaps only if considering the Twin two-fer pricing, but I don't recall that detail), but regular Highland Park is not aged in sherry casks, IIRC.
Does anyone here have some good Cadenhead pricing and tasting experience? My whisky cabinet got pretty bare as prices exploded in the 1990s, so if there are some real deals here I'd love to restock.
I checked at least one other Twin location and they had no clue about the Cadenhead clearance, so this might be something happening only at the Balcones Drive store.
The Twin Liquors at 5505 Balcones Drive has a red dot 30% clearance on some of their whisky (aka "Scotch"). While browsing the other day I noticed the name "Cadenhead" seemed to be on almost all of the red dot bottles--of which there were quite a few. In response to my query the clerk explained that Cadenhead is pulling out of the US market, which resulted in this clearance sale.
I was not familiar with the Cadenhead name, but learned they are a bottler, not a producer. That means you can buy Highland Park-produced whisky bottled by Cadenhead, for example, and so on for perhaps dozens of other names.
There were numerous variations of vintage-dated whisky and both "regular" and "cask strength" options.
Not being familiar with Cadenhead I could not tell whether the prices were really a bargain or not. The one example I noted was Cadenhead's bottling of 10 year old Highland Park aged in sherry casks for about $40 net. Highland Park's own 12 year old was in the low 30s (perhaps only if considering the Twin two-fer pricing, but I don't recall that detail), but regular Highland Park is not aged in sherry casks, IIRC.
Does anyone here have some good Cadenhead pricing and tasting experience? My whisky cabinet got pretty bare as prices exploded in the 1990s, so if there are some real deals here I'd love to restock.
I checked at least one other Twin location and they had no clue about the Cadenhead clearance, so this might be something happening only at the Balcones Drive store.
