Supply Chain Hurting Your Liquor Cabinet?

[MK]

Some base spirits, liqueurs and mixers have become hard to come by these days. Averna amaro and Basil Hayden's Dark Rye are as rare as chicken teeth in my area. What's missing from your cabinet?

 

[belfastboy]

Minor disaster on Saturday night as my wife and I had planned a Greek Picnic.......but alas no liquor store for a 500 mile radius has any Retsina. We were forced to drink white wine!!!!!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Bottles of some Single Malt Scotch are hard to get, especially above 12 yr olds. Lagavulin 8 & 16 yr olds are very hard to find. Same with Longmorn & Strathisla, now more difficult to find than before. So far the Ardbegs can still be found. One of the reasons I started down the path of American Single Malts.

What seems to be popping up everywhere are little shops selling what we used to call gas station 6-packs.

 

[M Hatman]

YES...virtually everything is expensive AND in short supply..........

 

[Turnip]

Complete opposite here, choice of Single Malts, US booze, Cognac, Rum, even exotic brands from exotic countries in banal supermarkets has never been larger than today. Wine has always been in large supply, exotic beers are increasingly catching up.

 

[belfastboy]

We have a provincially run liquor distribution branch and the employees are conducting job action as a precursor to a full blown strike. So, they are limiting the public to just 3 of any one item.........I drink boxed wine so I am good for a month or so!!!

 

[Turnip]

Mr. Bezos currently sells Talisker 10 for 28,- bucks here. Appears not really to be in short supply.
Supermarkets slightly higher, around 30,- bucks when not in offer.

 

[belfastboy]

Minor disaster on Saturday night as my wife and I had planned a Greek Picnic.......but alas no liquor store for a 500 mile radius has any Retsina. We were forced to drink white wine!!!!!

Turns out it was a manufactured shortage. The Liquor Board switched from the Tsantali litre bottles to the 750ml and it took them a week or so to make the switch. It was all sitting in the warehouse the whole time. All is well.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Even the Ardbegs are getting hard to find now. Particularly the 10, Oogie & Corry. Not so much with Wee Beastie or An Oh.

 

[Turnip]

Glad to live in Europe…