The Dalmore x BlockBar: Unlocking the Future of Rare Whisky Collecting

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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome back everybody to another fun edition of the Rolex Whiskey Passion Project.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I was going through some of my archives and realized we never put this interview up.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It was when I was working with Blockbar and me and Sam had a great talk with Stephen Martin from Downmore as we released this really limited Downmore on the Blockbar chain.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I thought you guys would really enjoy it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So take a listen.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Steven is a legend and this was absolutely amazing liquid from the down more which just really makes some amazing Scotch whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So take a listen, enjoy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good afternoon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good evening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, Sam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Great to see you, Steven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We miss you down here in Miami.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, how’s it going?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is everything holding up okay with I’m me?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We need you to come back and hold

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[SPEAKER_02]: still talking about the legend of Steve after that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was saying, well, that was and I was a great night, and the phayana was on points, and I was to blow you to West skis and walk to the people as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Gavin, you missed out.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I don’t maybe cry over here, okay?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I got to tell you right now, I’m at 93 degree Greather here in Palm Desert, and I’m still crying because I just missed the samples, but Steve, I know there’ll be waiting for me when I get back.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Look, as I was saying earlier, it sounded like the kids are on the water slides.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I said to the wife, I’m gonna take a break.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I’m gonna handle some business and come to the down here and make sure we nail this drop.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I’m super excited for this.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Stevie, just brief history.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Obviously, huge fan of the Delmore, cholesterol of the Delmore, lover of Richard in whatever tradition that is.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Got to drink some amazing amazing stuff that Richard has done and this 33 year old is just it has my number And I’m sure this is gonna go real quick because this this really is a no-brainer

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree there, Gabna, I think it’s exciting for us as well and certainly for me coming up to Miami and meeting the blockbar guys, it’s that curiosity of uncharted territory and that I’ve found intriguing and meeting everybody around the table and getting more and to what NFTs mean and what they mean in regards to collect, but in this case, I think there’s a whole world out there for us to explore together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, so we’re really excited for this drop

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and like for me, Steve, as a huge whiskey collector, this is a direct connection to the distillery and the opportunity to buy whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, without paying the fucking games, I mean, I get the games are part of the business, but to be able to go directly and grab the bottle and not have to be like, hey, did you spend, you know, exiles those olives with us and therefore you get the opportunity, we’ll give you the opportunity to buy this.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I’m like, how about I have the, you know, let’s just go, let’s buy it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: that to me is the most exciting piece of this and I got to imagine for you as the delmore for a new I mean for lack of better words a new resource I mean obviously you have your traditional you have duty free you have distillery and now you have this it’s got to be pretty exciting for the delmore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I met a lot of people in Miami and bought quite customers and they were a type of whiskey drink and collect so that I’d never really encountered before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly the chap that picked up the Dalmore decades collection last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was what if I sparse bodies into the whiskey industry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and it couldn’t be more opposite to my introduction to whisky, which is very different areas, you know, a cheap blend and a quarter bottle from the local corner shop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, this chapter’s in there with $137,000 collection of whisky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it’s exciting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, it’s set to send the Ignatio Curiosity in me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it’ll be exciting to see where this goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what’s in your

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[SPEAKER_00]: it’s international whiskey day as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you’ve got something to say in front of you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I have some tears because I missed my shipment.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I’ll take tears, but like I said, it’s 93 degrees.

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[SPEAKER_04]: The kids are having fun in the water park.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I know when I get home, this will be there for me.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And that happiness in the heart.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I got that case, I actually got, I actually got to go with Craig and drink the decades in Santa Monica, Wally’s.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So I, like I said to you earlier, it’s like, I know what Richard is capable and this thing is like, if you don’t understand how rare an exciting this is, then I need to, or maybe give you a light slap.

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[SPEAKER_04]: as Richard would like to say, and it’s me, we are nothing crazy, but like, but this is something special.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is this is something special.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I’m eager.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I can’t wait to try it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Obviously when I get home, my samples will be there.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I can’t wait to try it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I’ve already reserved my own bottle because would I be a whiskey collector if I wouldn’t buy it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: If I wasn’t buying this, this to me is a no-brainer on top of the whiskey experience, which I I really would like to dig into.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But I think first, I kind of tell me about this juice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so the 33-year-old is exciting because if you’ve ever been to the Dalmore to still let it go, and if you’ve been before.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But I definitely, you know, want to reserve this bottle, I’m taking the VIP experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We’re coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I absolutely, you’re more than welcome and of course, some as well, look to get you those for soon as, as one of the best places in the world to enjoy a whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If in, you come, you know, with done a lot of work over the last two, three years on the experience side and, you know, you can come into the McKenzie lounge for a cocktail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We’ve got the Westymakers room where you can have,

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[SPEAKER_00]: couple of nice old whiskeys, you know, you can sit and have dinner as great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Across the courtyard, you’ve also got a really interesting production side and it’s something that we don’t often talk about enough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don’t think with the Dalmo, you know, you’ve got probably one of the most intriguing stillhouses in the scorch whisking, you’ve got eight stills, all different shapes the sizes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s almost like a composition, the way that the stellar’s work, because it’s still playing a different tune.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What it does is that system is so perfectly on balance that the spirits are quite heavy and chunky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What that means is the whiskey at the dial more peaks really lake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just gets better and better with age and you know if you guys think about some of the whiskeys you might be picked up then some of your favourite des island whiskeys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The usually about 18 to 21 years is where I find a lot of my favourite facilities tend to beat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Dalmo is late, and 33 years, that mark for me represents a milestone player, depending on what Richard’s done, and obviously Greg as well over the last few decades or so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That whisk is going to get to be pretty spectacular and it’s going to be beautifully mature.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You’re going to get those antique notes that can only come with edge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You’ve still got that distinct chocolate orange and sweet spice that you’ll find in any dial mode, but the chocolate is big and dark, you know, that the orange is all English marmalade, the spices like ginger cake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s just so complex and so delicious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, of course, you’ve got a really interesting task finish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the dial mode’s famous for using big wine casks, you know, whether that

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[SPEAKER_00]: As Matuzilam Shedi from Gonzales Bias saw Ortoni port and when it comes to reds, wine, Richards a fan of Cabini Sauvignon Forward Blends and here we’re using, of course, you’re not Ouyak, but Eek.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you’re going to get some beautiful layering of flavor, you know, from that initial 30 years in the experiment casting, and that’s the year finish of Ouyak Cases.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s going to be pretty spectacular.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I had to express it as an incredible, incredible question, of course, a cool cast strength as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, flavors can be delivered than they just such a concentrated way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So no, who’s ever lucky enough to pick up a bottle, isn’t for a trip.

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[SPEAKER_03]: See, we’re at 51-5, right, ABV.

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[SPEAKER_03]: F-51.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Good to know,

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, the cast ranks, I mean, I’m a huge fan of what the barrel actually gets to do.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I know Richard likes to play, you know, play music to that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So I’m super excited.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That’s one.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, like, I really am, like, this, this to me is absolute no brainer.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Obviously, the first 10 people get the VIP experience, the next, the next group, group of the 200 and 30 team bottles, you know, they’re going to have their own VIP experience.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But to me, it’s like, where do you get a 30, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,

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[SPEAKER_04]: It’s really hard to say, no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you ask that again, sorry, God, I think you just get it, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Through some of the brief, I leave it out as far as the chalk.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Like, like, you get to drink a lot of downward.

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[SPEAKER_04]: What do you have to drinking a lot of downward?

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[SPEAKER_04]: What do you think makes this one special?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, well, first of all, you know, we’re using primarily a grown crew class eight barracks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So these are some of the finest red wine cast in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the finest red wine cast in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you couple that with what’s a typical house style from the Dalmore distillery, you’re going to be in for an absolute explosion of flavor, you know, what we can expect from grown crew class eight barracks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is, you know, a big concentrate to dark fruits, you know, these kind of plummet jam notes, black current, because sea is really going to shine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But also, what I find intriguing about these pojag wines is you’ve almost got a note to that can only describe as old cigar box or pencil shavings are these kind of mature antique notes that can only come through time in class.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think you’re going to get a beautifully mature whiskey, you’re going to get a complex whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There’s also going to be bad bags of tannin that grips, you know, your pala sight is side up and down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There’s just going to be so much flavor in there and also, you know, you’ve got whiskey and exciting age for the Dalmal as I mentioned, this is such a pivotal part of the Dalmal’s imagination journey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This kind of 30 to 35 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this 30 to the year is going to be an absolute showstopper from a collectible

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[SPEAKER_00]: perspective.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There’s not many of these.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there’s not many of these to pack up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this truly false that is enjoyables.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really collect the book as well.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I told, I totally hear you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think 33 is absolute sweets.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Why?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Like you said, 30, 35 is absolute sweets.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And this.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It’s just

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, for you, because this is our second drop with you, what exciting blockbar and Delmore.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, the other one went really fast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you just dropped two different seconds and was that what what exciting so superhero you do is let’s drop, can we’re working with this drop and with blockbar in general?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it’s talking to an audience that’s so curious and challenging.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it is one of the things that I find really exciting and

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I’ve been in Miami with you guys, some really interesting conversations on the table with an audience that has a very interesting perspective on whiskey and you know chatting with these guys and girls about the motivation for collecting whiskeys in this way, there’s massively eye opening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were very forward thinking and progressive, and Andrew and Charles McKenzie did a number of different things including bringing the royal stack, which was their clan crest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they brought the royal stack and in blazing the valley bottle with their clan crest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was almost like an early piece of marketing, you know, that strong piece of Scottish iconography, plastered the

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[SPEAKER_00]: was actually exported, the whisky, far and wide, they used the Matheson’s knowledge of trade routes to send the whisky to the Far East, actually to Australia and New Zealand as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they were very forward thinking and how they sold their whisky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think this is almost like the 2022 equivalent of that, the way that the Dalmoist philosophy has always been around being in the front foot, always being progressive, always thinking ahead within the boundaries of what’s a very distinct whiskey-making philosophy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think exploring uncharted waters through NFTs, that is just the modern day equivalent of flats.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think the possibilities are limitless.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we’re engaging some really interesting people.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I totally see it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think a lot of people have a hard time understanding that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you want to dig into that for a second?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it’s exactly like you say, people who are interested in collecting or investing in premium spirits.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There’s a lot of people who are unaware of this entire world of collecting and investing premium spirits.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But even if you do finally decide to buy that purchase, you know, that down more 33 year old, it’s difficult to actually get your hands on that bottle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then if you do get your hands on that bottle, it’s difficult for you to actually store that bottle of yourself and eventually prove authenticity whenever comes the point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So one of the great things about what we do, and Gavin, I know this is what attracted you to come join the team in the first place, is the fact that it allows people to buy and collect and invest in premium spirits without having to actual burden of having to store it in your house by yourself or in a facility where that you, you can’t really see it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a way for consumers to buy a product directly from the Dalmore.

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[SPEAKER_02]: have the product maintained and stored and ensured by professionals.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then ultimately, if you ever want to have that product delivered to you, you just exchange the NFT for the physical product.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So basically what we do is we prove authenticity up until the point of conception when you’re ready to consume it and when you’re ready to have it delivered.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and honestly, that was the biggest thing.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think a lot of people have a hard time understanding.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is not a digital version of the whisk.

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[SPEAKER_04]: The actual bottle, etc.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That we will be storing for you in Singapore.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Take on this.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, the first 10 comes with a VIP experience.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Steven, do you have any like to share on what that VIP experience will look like?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so you’re going to visit the home of, you know, some of the most exceptional whiskeys in the world, the download it, to where we’ve been making whiskeys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, the top 10, the first 10 purchasers of the, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re like, you know, they’re

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[SPEAKER_00]: into the McKenzie-Lunge with a cocktail, they’ll taste some incredible whiskies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course we’ll host them for dinner as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course they’re well interested in the whisky nor dives, so we’ll visit the production side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not it’s going to be a spectacular trip right in the banks of the pulmetry for third distillate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s one of the best places to enjoy your drama.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it’s quite a, it’s an interesting part of our whiskey landscape as well up there, the North Highlands, you know, because there’s so many different facilities up there, making different styles of whiskey, but in the home that we have, that’s where you’ll find the most rich, random, robust single moths of them all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, who’s ever lucky enough to pick up those first 10, they’re certainly in for a treat, Gavin.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That’s like the bonus found.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Not only do you get a 33 year old, that’s super super luxury, super collectible, you know, I choose to collect some people choose to open them and drink them, you obviously have the opportunity to leave it on the block platform, you get offered, first you get all that kind of stuff, or you can burn your NFT, I think Sam, you want to explain what it means to burn an NFT,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, basically what we do is we use the NFT for provenance and prove authenticity of the physical bottle of whiskey in this case.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So at any point, if you want to have the physical bottle delivered to you, you’re essentially exchanging your digital version for your physical bottle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you burn the NFT, it just sends it to a bird address.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It’s no longer in your possession.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was used for you to then redeem the physical product.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, under lock and key until you’re ready for that, then we’ll ship it to you to me as a as a collect having the most face in my house, but this is something that when I buy this one, I will probably burn it because I want to I want the VIP experience, I want to go hang out with the team and I want to drink, you know, great down more like I’ve done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s funny when I chat to people about NFTs now, in regards to whisky, they always say to me, why wouldn’t I just buy the bottle?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I, when I don’t learn it, you know, obviously not as eloquently as Sam just has there, but they always say to me, they always say, oh god, that’s a really good idea, because it’s like you see in their government, I don’t want to have any more bottles of whisky in my house, but I want to get my hands on some of these super collectible bottles, like the downward effect,

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[SPEAKER_00]: it’s something that from speaking to some of you guys is really driving desire and which is interesting in itself.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We’ll see, as you know in the last five years, you know, I’ll see as the whiskey investor, you’ve got a huge gains in profits and you have to think about like hey, where did I buy that Bible?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Here you have authenticity, but you know, let’s just say hypothetically

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[SPEAKER_04]: So for me to like buy it and people transact on it, why wouldn’t I do that make total sense to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what’s some some from your end are you hearing a lot of excitement about the drop on choose there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the the drop on Tuesday is really only for Craig Blockbar NFT owners.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it’s a little bit more reserved.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we’ve gotten a lot of people reaching out saying, you know, when when can I get my hands on it for people who don’t own current blockbar NFTs, but again, it’s just about shifting that momentum and building the hype up until the next drop, which is a week later when we do the public release of all of the products.

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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, especially when you start getting into the explanation, and people would much rather hear you talk about it than me because of your fancy accent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When people get into that explanation of exactly what this, what this bottle of whiskey is, what it represents, how old it is, where it comes from.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It really is a no-brainer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I keep saying, you’re buying it directly from the brand.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You’re getting to interact directly with the brand.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and it’s an exciting new world.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Our whole objective is to really open up the door and democratize the world of high-end spirits, to allow people from every age demographic, as a lot of courses, legal age demographic, from all across the world, to give them access to this world of premium spirits investing and collecting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And do you think, you know, knowing the NFT world

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to say, Sam, do you think the fact that this is a single casket?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I don’t think that’s a really interesting finish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that’s more appealing to your audience than to say a slightly larger, a slightly larger run that is perhaps more single casket?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yes, I think that anyone who’s into collectibles would be able to appreciate something that’s a little bit more scarce and again, that’s why we think it’s so valuable to do sessions like this and for it to be transparent to hear directly from the brand themselves explaining why this is so rare and the fact that it is so scarce, you know, when I was talking about it with John, I just saw John from someone else for the Dalmore team in New York, he was saying that he wants to get a bottle just because he knows how limited and how rare this is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think something that we that we’re trying to do now and I think Gavin is doing a great job and Steve you’re doing a great job is just educate consumers on what is so special about the liquid, what is so special about the bottle, the cast, the brands, of course anyone who’s into any sort of collectible, you know that the more scarce it is the more valuable it is because the harder it can get on here.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I mean, Stevie, I think we’ve to take one step back and you explain who you are and barrel of downward for lack of better words.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, this is not the average use that the average joke can get a hold of.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, so I’m the global ambassador for the Dalmore and I’ve worked with them, you know, the company for a few years now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I’ll can I also spend time in across the world

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, talking about our whiskey, which is great, and I think this is such an interesting you world for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, when you look at this dirty three, your old polyag finish, Premier Grunk Group Placic Breaks, you’ve got that same, the synergy between what goes on, one of the most exceptional single, the stilleries in Scotland, and then what goes on is something most remarkable, shuttles and those certainly, you know, finest wineries in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You’re going to have a show stopping whiskey there, you know, and you’re going to get that classic downward-house style complimented beautifully by the wine that’s previously been in these casks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is rare as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s not often that we’ve used a cask of this nature or a cask of this quality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I’d false we have many casts up at the distillery, Richard will identify the truly special ones that if caught as I, and you’ll star them accordingly, one stars two stars a three stars and in this case this cast gets truly special, which is while we’ve released this with you guys a limited release, a single cast in that short string, a 33 years of age for our blog bar customers.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But Stevie, you are running a spectral program within Delmore.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is not your average barrel selection.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that’s what people don’t realize.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They’re getting access to something super special.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That’s really just not available to anybody.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is not going to be on the shelf somewhere.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is not going to be on duty free anywhere.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is access to Delmore private collection for lack of better words.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we’ve got our favorite cast, so we go back to time and time again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And our philosophy sent to the round decks, barbing cast, and then finishing in wine cast, or enhancing in wine cast, whether to be sharing poor red wine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Generally, it’ll be a cast as held a robust wine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also a wonderful answer on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mo use Matuzilum casks from Gonzalo’s bias a lot, you know, sweetened all the rocks or sherry, this super complex, we’ll use pork pipe some grams, and because that’s so compatible and with our house style, we will use red wine burriques, however red wine burriques.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of this standard from this region, from this population, they are truly special in the way this facility is behaved and children developed over 33 long years as something quite magnificent and something scarce and rare that there’s going to be 223 lucky people out there to get their hands on a bottle.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that to me as whiskey investor and whiskey collectors, the most exciting part, this is not something that I would normally get access to.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, unless I committed to the whole barrel, so here we are, as block, as blockbar family, we’re, in essence, we’re time sharing a bottle together.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I have the whole barrel together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s an interesting way of looking at how to thought about it like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like that, time shading about it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, we’re all getting a piece of it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We all have the opportunity to redeem it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We don’t have the opportunity to burn it and bring it back.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But at the end of the day, we have an opportunity to be part of something that’s very exclusive.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, that’s a very exclusive group of downloads, not your average whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is something that’s…

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[SPEAKER_04]: taking the extra time, given the atom generally I wouldn’t say gifted because you had to pay for it, but a part of a whole different group.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And here we have as Blockbar an opportunity to buy it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, it’s part of a really exciting partnership, which we think I’ll would have blocked Blockbar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I’d like to say this cast gives truly special.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s still sleeping in the warehouses up with the distillery, though in that cast turns 23 this September.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We look forward to film those bottles and you know, 223 lucky collectors will get their hands on them virtually or physically.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I feel like the first 10 get an echron because we’re going to come hang out with you over there.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And then the other 213, you know, they’re going to get to kick their destination to have a party and get to taste it together and kind of like as what the way I see it’s kind of camaraderie.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, like hey, you know, we’re part of something bigger than what we actually are because Blockbar has this opportunity with downward.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Will you guys be joining?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Will you guys be coming over?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Depends if we’re invited.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If we’re invited, definitely, we can pass up that opportunity.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Sam, it’s looks Sam as an owner of Blockco and our blockbar gets gift.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I’m going to get a bottle so I can, you know, come to the party and hang out with Sam.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Gavin, we got to write out there together.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I’ve never been to the glamour to see where he either.

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[SPEAKER_04]: No, that’s cool.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let’s go.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let’s go.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let’s go have fun, I mean at the end of the day, you guys make amazing shit as a true maestro of whiskey in my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I’ve got to drink a lot of Rich’s whiskey as I believe he really in my straw.

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[SPEAKER_04]: He picks the perfect barrels, he finishes his whiskey accordingly, and he never makes anything the same.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Just what I’ve always loved about Richard.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I guess you’ll be correct me if I’m wrong, but like he doesn’t really, he doesn’t repeat a note.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the down more has, the first issue on the downward are understakable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you put your nose in a glass of downward, you know it’s the downward with that, you know, that chocolate orange and sweet spice, it’s a retroned and robust complex.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we work with them what’s a very clear idea around making whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, we’re always, you know, innovating than that space.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We’re always using the best cast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We’re always layering flavors and retrored you know, he has a true artist, the way that an artist

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[SPEAKER_00]: Richard Bowley used cast to near use cast of whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Richard arrived at the Dalmore Disability in 1970.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, he’s had one job for the last 52 years, a short to see the in the world, but you know, a long list of accolades.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he arrived on the 1970, the decade the followed was a decade of discovery for Richard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He visited the pedagogy of Andalusia, visited the port lodges of the duo, the wineries of Bordeaux, scooping out some of these casks to

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[SPEAKER_00]: from major hack McKenzie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the whisky making philosophy is almost run through this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It’s been like this pioneering spirit that’s existed at the Dalmore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, McKenzie is alive in 1867.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Each visionary whisky maker has built on this idea.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Around using wine casts over a long period of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even the McKenzie’s back in the 80s, 60s, 80s, 70s, 70s, 80s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were maturing whiskey’s part, 10, 12, even 20 plus years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People thought they were crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that’s just been carried on through the generations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, Richards picked up this idea, and this mantra, and is run with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that’s why the whiskey just kept better and better and better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, you would have seen the interview a few years ago with Richard Vinny was asked, what’s the best downward you’ve made?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just shows that kind of relentless pursuit of excellence and perfection, always looking to improve.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There’s something quite special.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sam, did you have a taste in New York with John this week?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I was fortunate enough to have a taste and to be honest, I’m not as well well versed in whiskey as as Gavin news or as you are, but definitely just being though you could you could taste the difference between something so incredible and guys, I just want to say thank you again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you ever for joining your Stevie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I’m really looking forward to the drop Gavin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for doing this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have to get running because I’m making a flight, but Stevie you’re in good hands and we’ll touch base after this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That good stuff, sir, to see you soon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That’s it for sure.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Tam would catch you, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Have a good show today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I’m not going to keep going for Mark Bunger.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I’m super excited for this drop.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think the drops are no brainer.

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[SPEAKER_04]: If you want to access to this kind of whiskey, we offer that our blockbar.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Me personally, I love this kind of whiskey.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I will definitely be burning my NFT and bringing this whiskey home, because I’ve been fortunate to drink some amazing whiskey with Richard and Craig.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And to me, this is, I can’t wait to try it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think, Gavin, I always thought Whiskey’s was all about kind of tasks and cocktails and moving it to this new world of NFTs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it’s mind-blowing, it ignites this curiosity within me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, Whiskey’s about inclusivity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is just the next part of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I’ll really excited to see where this goes excited for the drop on Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This whiskey is truly special coming from a truly special disability as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, I’m excited to see how it goes in the 10 NFTs that go live and Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We can’t wait to welcome the locking collectors of the disability in the nor too distant future.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you everyone for listening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another great episode, and that is a wrap.