Arts4Arts sake!

Is it just me? Or is the whisky industry trying to place products in the Tate gallery? ART 4 ARTS SAKE; Surely whisky is produced to drink, enjoy and share with friends. Recently there has been an influx of “designer” bottles and packaging. Now dinnee get me wrong, I love design as much as the next person, er aye, well maybe a bit more actually, design has been a part of my life for the past 40 years! So, why is it that several whiskies are now being packages in super dooper boxes and designer glass?

How much of the cost for these examples shown, is actually the whisky and how much the packaging? I do really like each of the samples shown, but come on, the cost is out of reach of most people and many of these end up in “collectors” collections. I bet they dinnee actually ever drink them, surely that’s not whisky is all about. It’s like owning a Lamborghini but never actually driving it, and that’s a damn shame eh!

Tell me; once you have actually drank your whisky, do you keep the bottle on a shelf for everyone to look at? Or do you dump it in the bin? Rr do you never drink it because it looks really cool?

by Paul McLean http://angelswhiskyclub.com/awc/art4art.asp

paul@angelswhiskyclub.com and www.angelswhiskyclub.com

This oipnion is solely that of Paul Mclean….and not of  Whisky Intelligence