Life is an Ardbeg Roller coaster

[papercrack]

Well the Perfect 10 being launched next Monday.

Ups and down but will sell out quick IMHO

[kyorke1]

Too right, filling my order form in as I speak.

[richard]

how long before there on ebay












richard

[bcrossan]

An hour after they go on sale

[orangedogofglory]

who would care to claim that they are buying 10 bottles?

[les taylor]

Love the little booklet. A story with highs and lows.

[jazz lover]

Orangedog put me down for 6 bottles.

[Willie JJ]

Too right, filling my order form in as I speak.

Must be nice to have a form.

[les taylor]

Too right, filling my order form in as I speak.

Must be nice to have a form.

Willie it's on the back page of the booklet.

[orangedogofglory]

Orangedog put me down for 6 bottles.

Well with you it actually makes sense... not everyone buys whisky by the baker's dozen as standard practice... ha ha. In this case baker's dozen loosely translates to 3 crates.

[ClubSmed]

Too right, filling my order form in as I speak.

Must be nice to have a form.

Willie it's on the back page of the booklet.

I have not received anything in the post from the Ardbeg Committee for a long time!

I think I may need to email the Committee again.

[Whiskytaster]

Not received anything from Ardbeg yet.

Anyone have any details on this bottling?

& what time are they taking orders from on the website?

[richard]

orders are being taken from 9am monday the 15 th february
the bottle is ardbeg ten anniversary committee bottling at 57.3%

i hope this helps

richard

[whiteshirt]

How many bottles produced ?

Rough guess would be about 2500!

[Jobi]

A nice little booklet to read. I especially like the 'no shipping to the US' part. Always enjoy a good tease.

[orangedogofglory]

A nice little booklet to read. I especially like the 'no shipping to the US' part. Always enjoy a good tease.

IMO, this is what makes the effort of guys like lohssanami so impressive... its such a pain to be an Ardbeg fan in the States.

[r900p]

This is released in the US i know a friend who has his.

Rob

[jazz lover]

Yes some will make it here..

[hearts151]

How many bottles produced ?

Rough guess would be about 2500!

Its a release of 15,000 bottles. Can't say how I know until midnight tonight lol

[papercrack]

Is it 3000 this release

12000 general . Like to know before I commit tomorrow.

[MacLlyr]

Ardbeg project has it as 15,000 total bottles and 3,000 of which are for US release...

http://www.ardbegproject.com/rollercoaster_ukcom.shtml

http://www.ardbegproject.com/rollercoaster_uscom.shtml

I am a little iffy on this one to be honest I think we will see a lot of these on ebay for some time to come. So the good news is that if you cant buy one now wait and there will be some of the secondary market for some time. Just don't be foolish enough to pay to much on ebay the first week of release.

[lohssanami]

Hehe...I could be wrong as I didn't hear this from anyone in an official capacity with Ardbeg, Glenmorangie or LVMH.

I would guess that the touts hope I'm wrong so they can make more money off of this release, but I think the drinkers would be glad to see this number.

This could be a ploy to make the touts believe they don't have to order early in the morning, saving the bottles for the rest of us.

[hearts151]

Okay, I'm on the committee for the Water of Life Society at Edinburgh Uni and had booked Davinia Small for an ardbeg tasting last thrsday for quite a few months, and luckily for us its fell right before this release!
As you can guess she brought s along some Rollercoaster but didn't want it mention that we tasted it before Monday and certainly didn't want tasting notes to appear from us.

Anyway she told me personally that its 15,000 bottles release.

As for the whisky itself, hmm, it was nice, but I would rush to buy one if it was a general bottles, 10yo, Ooogy are better to me, however I think its more of a whisky that some will love (heard from a few people that they didn't like it as there was too much going on, but then some people would love that).

P.s we invited the Edin whisky blog along, prob better tasting notes than me lol, heres there article. http://www.edinburghwhiskyblog.com/2010/02/15/ardbeg-rollercoaster-review/#more-3667

On a side note, Corryvrekan is a standard bottling for a limited period (as opposed to a limited bottling) it will be released regualarly for the next few years, next release being later this month

[papercrack]

Ardbeg have a lot of bridges to build after this farce.

[hearts151]

your telling me, the closest I've gotten is being able to type in the quantity I wanted, but of course.. the next page failed to load...

[papercrack]

Just got through on the phone

2 in the bag - 4 hours hard work.

[hearts151]

Just got through on the phone

2 in the bag - 4 hours hard work.

Damn U!! I have been trying online lol, managed to get onto the shopping cart page, AND update it to 2 bottles, but then failed lol, not even logged into the site yet, fuck knows how thats going to work.

[Ardbegfan]

When is the website likely to be back up and running, anyone know??

[les taylor]

pm today evidently.

[Redland Hill]

Ardbeg fan, is that you FeisIslay ?!?!

Got my two ordered via the phone at lunchtime, appreantly they are having no end of problems with the website. Theres a 15,000 bottles Im sure it will take a while for even FeisIslay to gobble up all those

[Ardbegfan]

Dont know what you mean Redland Hill?? Feisislay?? My name is Ross, i thought that guys name was Barry?

[papercrack]

We would like to apologise for the momentous bottleneck at ardbeg.com/rollercoaster this morning, as we unleashed this thrilling Anniversary dram on the world.

Having cranked up the suspense about Rollercoaster, the buzz has been gathering pace. And at 9am, an unprecedented 25,000 Committee Members - that's half of you - simultaneously attempted to squeeze through the doors of the website.

As a result, everything has temporarily come to a standstill as we try to rectify the problem. Please hold tight. We will send you another email as soon as we're up and running again. All future orders as a result will have free postage. Well its what they should do.

[whiskyhibby]

Anyone have the ardbeg shop phone number??

[whiskyhibby]

pm today evidently.

Apparently they are waiting for their 14 year old web-designer to return from School

[SoMK]

I confess I expected the website to crash bad and things to go haywire so I sent my order through the mail last week
No, don't dream, they don't deliver in Canada, I just have family in Edinburgh