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This arrived in my inbox today from Statista , and thought I'd share with the WPS community. Congratulations to anyone collecting rare whisky! " As Statista's Katharina Buchholz wrote for Forbes last week, "as stock markets flailed and the age of zero int...  

for whiskey. It is my favorite alcohol after all . Thanks for sharing with us, cheers, Filip

but not only was whisky first, it was first by a lot.

Last year, a good friend decided to sell most of his collection of whiskey bottles … pretty rare stuff like very old Bowmore etc. We had a tasting once again and then he told me that the little sip i took was worth around 200 € 🥶. The bottles he sold were... 

Actually the first time i sipped from that same bottle was back in 2004. This post reminds me i still have some ‘Don Papa’ in da house 😅

It must just be me...

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… unless you drink the stuff, it really doesn’t give you much enjoyment. Many years ago, when I was traveling a lot more, I’d always grab a bottle of good Japanese whisky in the international duty free. The selection in most major international airports i...  

That Nikka Taketsuru 21 is a standout that I wish was still available.

I would have bought a case of each and then some! And that’s why I can never buy the really rare stuff, I’d just end up drinking it! #cantbetrustedwiththemacallan50

Exactly.

It used to be available for around $400 a bottle, and now it's impossible to find at duty free.

It truly depends on your goods basket. Not all whisky has increased significantly. Our favorite Macallan and the Hibiki and Yamazaki have the most. But if your whisky portfolio or "goods basket" didn't heavily consist of these, it's hard to say. Furthermo... 

They probably follow some sort of index that tracks standard prices for standard whiskies. There is a rare car index that has a basket of vintage cars - broad range of those cars. Other than that, I don't know what else they've got...

Sure, if your index consisted of Macallan rare bottles. Or the rare Japanese bottles, this would totally make sense. Might even be on the low side. But if not, then it'd be harder.

They all pale into insignificance when compared with the increase achieved by Tesla shares. In the period from 2012 to 2021 the share price increased by approximately 13,198%.

A S&P 500 index fund was up 225% and can be sold in literally one second, with essentially no transaction cost vs. the stated market price. Unfortunately that cannot be done with the listed collectibles.

I still love a good watch and never really cared about it increasing in value.

and no need to be statistician : your health. It has no price, can’t be bought later if you don’t care, allows all the other investment to make sense, and it money wise quite affordable compared to any other investment.