This $3,000 Bottle of Whiskey Shows the Power of Scarcity

It sells at a mark-up of over 1,100%

Geraint Clarke
Better Marketing
Published in
4 min readAug 13, 2020

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Pappy Van Winkle sounds like a fictional character from a children’s book… It’s not. It’s a Kentucky-born whiskey brand that commands mark-ups of over 1,108% per bottle.

Each $299 bottle sells for over $3,600 on the secondary market, but if a bar is lucky enough to get their hands…

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