I bought Blandy's 1958 Bual , bottle 121/1.000 bottled 2009 . I have the 1958 ual Cossart Gordan.. Guess it is the same wine bottled much later. Still three bottles left in Norway. Wil try and see what i can get..
Price exactly $ 235 incl. $ 10 "liquid poison"tax and 25% VAT.
Good thing with our goverment state monopoly is that when they buy from a producer, plonk or super expensive stuff like madeiras, they add only a certain percentage of profit for both then the tax then the 25 %.. They don't squeeze more out if the market price is high. So even regular expensive red wine people often buy here, still turn out cheaper than most countries.... Not possible to take it on export and get the VAT back.
Even Norway is superexpensive for hard liquor, it can be cheap on the expensive wines..
Example: Price of Barbeito 1795 T was about $ 1.000 for a few years about 10-12 years ago and they had a yearly quota, which I grabbed.