Costco 40 year old Glenlivet

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Came across this the other day and had to go back today with my camera to get the required verification (no pictures it didn't happen). For our out of the US members, Costco is a warehouse wholesale club where you pay a fee (about $30 a year give or take) for membership, and then are allowed to shop at their fairly deeply discounted warehouse stores. This is the kind of place where you can pay half the normal price of, say, Eggo's waffles, on a per waffle basis, by buying a box of like 80 waffles instead of the usual 10. Not as much variety as a grocery or department store or electronics store, but great values on good quality merchandise. Part of that is buying items in the store brand instead of big name brands sometimes, and this stores in-house brand. Enough background.

I was in their liquor department and saw in a locked case a collector's edition wooden-boxed bottle of 40 year old Glenlivet, labelled with the "Kirkland Signature" house brand name, selling for a penny shy of $700US, plus 6% tax, for a 750 ml bottle. House brand 40yr old Glenlivet at Costco, at that price (about $30 per ounce, and about 25 ounces in a bottle).

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I know that I am not dropping $700 on a bottle, but I could see the possibility of several interested buyers getting together to split the cost on a per oz basis. Anybody interested in a few ounces of 40 year old Glenlivet? It is not a bottle I would brag about having in my scotch cabinet, but a few ounces might be worth trying just to say you've drunk 40 year old Glenlivet scotch whisky. What do you think Mook, you game?