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^^^^ What he said! ^^^ 
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Thanks I'm leaning towards that side, however I want to wait to open it. Got some big things coming up this year, so I may want to save it for that.
Congrats, dude!So I need some advice from you guys. I recently had a bout of extreme luck & I’m not sure how I should proceed. I received a special invitation to a BTAC raffle at my local spirits store, it’s actually one of the biggest bourbon selections in New Jersey. Total private event with around 200 people. They were raffling off about 14 bottles of the BTAC and you could only win one bottle. Each person had 10 raffle tickets to play with. My goal was to win either the Pappy 23 (which I would’ve no doubt sold for the $3000 price they seem to start at), William LaRue Wellar, or the George T Stagg (which I was on the fence about selling Or one day uncorking it). The GTS goes for on average $1000 on secondary markets. Wouldn’t you know but I was one of two of the lucky winners of George T Stagg!!!! Now I need to really ponder what I want to do with it. Every ounce of me is saying to keep it...keep it...keep it. I paid just under $100 for it Witt tax included.
I also was lucky enough to be one of 5 people to score a bottle of Stagg JR, when it was allocated several months ago. I got a call from the manager that I was one of the lucky 5 he chose to sell it to. I must say that expectations were high and I’m a little disappointed. Maybe it needs to develop more in the bottle through uncorking, but it isn’t as refined as say my Bookers. It’s definitely not a mouth coater but I will wait and see. I’m not sure I’ll be buying another bottle though.
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If I was in your shoes, I would definitely keep it. Maybe it’s my belief that people who buy and flip are the reason we can’t find bottles in the first place so I have kind of a moral stance against flipping bottles.
And besides, when else are you going to get a bourbon like this for under $100? As someone with two young kids and another on the way - I live and die on raffle entries for the allocated bottles the county sells at retail as it’s my only shot at getting them, so winning equals keeping.
Now other people’s situations may be very different than mine, but this is why I would keep and enjoy it.
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Thanks dude!! I think I'm going to keep it. I appreciate the words of wisdom. Congrats on your wee one on the way.
I'm usually against flippers myself; having worked for Ferrari and seen it first hand (it always kind of bothered me). I think my only exception would be the Pappy 23, at $3000 starting, that's a lot of great bourbon I could buy (plus I could fund my first trip to the Bourbon Trail too).
@BourbonBinder $3000 is a lot to pass on lol. Might be hard to move on from that bottle once you see it in your hand too tho lol.
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EXACTLY!! Maybe I'll bring the luck with me next time there's a raffle. Or I may just end up with a bottle of 15 year Pappy which I think I would keep.
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Drink it up @BourbonBinder . Life is short.
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Stagg is not selling for 1000k on secondary.So I need some advice from you guys. I recently had a bout of extreme luck & I’m not sure how I should proceed. I received a special invitation to a BTAC raffle at my local spirits store, it’s actually one of the biggest bourbon selections in New Jersey. Total private event with around 200 people. They were raffling off about 14 bottles of the BTAC and you could only win one bottle. Each person had 10 raffle tickets to play with. My goal was to win either the Pappy 23 (which I would’ve no doubt sold for the $3000 price they seem to start at), William LaRue Wellar, or the George T Stagg (which I was on the fence about selling Or one day uncorking it). The GTS goes for on average $1000 on secondary markets. Wouldn’t you know but I was one of two of the lucky winners of George T Stagg!!!! Now I need to really ponder what I want to do with it. Every ounce of me is saying to keep it...keep it...keep it. I paid just under $100 for it Witt tax included.
I also was lucky enough to be one of 5 people to score a bottle of Stagg JR, when it was allocated several months ago. I got a call from the manager that I was one of the lucky 5 he chose to sell it to. I must say that expectations were high and I’m a little disappointed. Maybe it needs to develop more in the bottle through uncorking, but it isn’t as refined as say my Bookers. It’s definitely not a mouth coater but I will wait and see. I’m not sure I’ll be buying another bottle though.
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Iirc with out looking it goes for 375 and falling because of how much was made this year.....
It’s worth what you paid retail for. I’ve had he pleasure to drink at least 5 bottles of it since 2010. It’s worth retail.
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I just found a bottle of the Stagg Jr. and really enjoyed it. Was it last years release? I did hear it wasn’t as good as this years. Congrats on the BTAC Stagg that’s a great deal at retail.So I need some advice from you guys. I recently had a bout of extreme luck & I’m not sure how I should proceed. I received a special invitation to a BTAC raffle at my local spirits store, it’s actually one of the biggest bourbon selections in New Jersey. Total private event with around 200 people. They were raffling off about 14 bottles of the BTAC and you could only win one bottle. Each person had 10 raffle tickets to play with. My goal was to win either the Pappy 23 (which I would’ve no doubt sold for the $3000 price they seem to start at), William LaRue Wellar, or the George T Stagg (which I was on the fence about selling Or one day uncorking it). The GTS goes for on average $1000 on secondary markets. Wouldn’t you know but I was one of two of the lucky winners of George T Stagg!!!! Now I need to really ponder what I want to do with it. Every ounce of me is saying to keep it...keep it...keep it. I paid just under $100 for it Witt tax included.
I also was lucky enough to be one of 5 people to score a bottle of Stagg JR, when it was allocated several months ago. I got a call from the manager that I was one of the lucky 5 he chose to sell it to. I must say that expectations were high and I’m a little disappointed. Maybe it needs to develop more in the bottle through uncorking, but it isn’t as refined as say my Bookers. It’s definitely not a mouth coater but I will wait and see. I’m not sure I’ll be buying another bottle though.
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Not according to google without looking for long. Sure it may be worth retail now, if you could find a bottle, which most people can’t. I know certain professional collectors, guys with 8,000 bottle collections, that have only been able to snag a few bottles of George T Stagg over the last 5 years (at retail prices). so it’s certainly worth more than retail to them. Some guys are lucky (like yourself and me) and we have had a bottle (or bottles) fall into our hands. Just because there was a wide release (309 barrels this year) doesn’t exactly mean this years Stagg won’t climb up to $1000 in secondary markets in the coming years. Also not every state is created equal, your state might have a higher allocation rate. All I know is that here in NJ (the most densely populated state in the country) we have a small allocation rate (either that or it gets swallowed up very quickly). Two of my friends who are managers at major spirit store chains, say that whenever their stores get a BTAC in, most of the Stagg, Pappy, William LaRue, etc go to the store owners top clients or when they golf it's used for prizes. Just after winning the bottle I had several people in the store offer $200-$300 for it (proving that secondary market pricing exists for this years release, and is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it).
I should've mentioned in my OP that I wasn't looking to sell it right away, but after a year or so when statistically speaking, secondary market prices have climbed to $1000 for past releases. That would mean I would intentionally refrain from uncorking it and diminishing its value substantially. Of course that point is moot, since I plan to keep it.
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