If you want to buy the bottle, call the store. It’s in the original post.
Steve L Gellman:I don’t know anything about whiskey but received this email from a local retailer.
Hi
sorry if I’m responding in the wrong way and wrong place and so on…
we’;ve purchased a bottle at about $18K (my staff tells me) and if you are offering this bottle? or just sharing news?
we would be interested to purchase if the price is near $18K…
we have customers for these and the Macallan’s, and so on.
thank you
Please write to me directly as social media is not my comfort - william@williamgladstoneimports.com
Here it is:Even more rare than Pappy.
The rarest whisky allocation to ever fall into Ancona’s Hands.
A single bottle allocated to the state of Connecticut.
It could be yours.
Bowmore Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Aged 50 Years (1961).
A collector’s item. Investment grade. Rarity at its very pinnacle.
For the guy who literally has everything.
From Bowmore: “Distilled one very cold day in December 1961 and laid down in two ex-bourbon hogshead casks, our Bowmore 50 Years Old has spent half a century maturing in Bowmore’s legendary No. 1 Vaults. Today, just 200 bottles of this truly exceptional single malt remain - 50 of which will be released each year between 2013 and 2016. Bowmore 1961 is a celebration of not just one mastercraft but many, starting with the time-honoured skills of our small distillery team that cold winter’s day on Islay.”
This is the last release folks. 1 bottle available.
First come, first served.
Email Offer: $19,999.99
Umm. What? Steve was offered a bottle at $20K. Didn’t buy it, and in fact expressed that the price was, in his opinion, outrageous. So you ask if he wants to sell it to you for $18K. Beyond the strangeness of offering here your reading comprehension appears to need some work. Or I’m missing something entirely, because this doesn’t make any sense.
Thanks Scott for the reply and details above.

Thanks Scott for the reply and details above.
Did you try it? Curious what you thought.