A while ago on John Hansell‘s site (www.whatdoesjohnknow.com), an extremely good review of the new Buffalo Trace Antique Collection was published. In Europe, these bottles are very hard to come by, especially if you want them all from the same annual release. If you find them, you still have to be able to pay for them!

Of course, the first thing that comes to my mind is to put them all in a Bottle-Share! Because this is about ‘only’ five whiskies the Bottle-Share is a bit earlier than I planned, since I wanted to do a Bottle-Share somewhere at the end of March.

Unfortunately, it seems impossible to get the five bottles from one year, so I opted for the next best thing: A bottle of all five releases, but from different years. This was possible at Master of Malt. I emphasize was, since one of them has already sold out since I ordered it. At least two of the bottles are from the 2010 release!

Participation in this Bottle-Share is €47.50 and for that money you get a 5cl sample of all five the whiskies. I am making no profit whatsoever, so I think you’ll be hard pressed to get those samples cheaper elsewhere (excluding the USA, of course).

As with every Bottle-Share the participants of previous editions (this is the third edition) get a heads up before I publish this on my blog. After that, it is on a first come, first serve basis. At the moment, only three spots are available, so give me an e-mail, tweet, facebook poke or whatever quick!

PS: The regular (slightly bigger) Bottle-Share I had planned for March will be pushed back a little bit and I will send out e-mails for that around the end of March. I have not figured out a theme for the Bottle-Share yet.