As anyone who knows him will testify, the auld yin is not above begging – or bribery or blackmail for that matter – when it comes to getting his calloused little mitts on things he holds dear.
Whisky is one of those things he holds dear.
And while he wouldn’t want to give his age away, word has it at SLR Towers that he has been in touch with Maxxium’s Paul Seenan, a good friend of SLR’s, after hearing about a nice wee bottle of 1926 Macallan that was sold at auction recently.
While we only caught snippets of the conversation, it appeared that UTC believed it was “the least that Seenan could do” to sling him a wee bottle too as thanks for his long-standing coverage of the brand and his equally long-standing commitment to buying the stuff.
We are yet to hear Seenan’s response, but as two bottles went for $1.2m recently, we fear the auld yin might be back on the Grouse before long.
