I think I'd be tempted to go for it if there was any tasting events anywhere nearby. I'm not sure if I'd enjoy drooling over the magazine or resent being offered whisky I couldn't afford. I'm assuming you'd order the bottles if you were to buy them and I'm not sure that'd be allowed in Norway, at least not without massive taxes. I looked into ordering over the internet before and I'd have to pay import tax, alcohol tax, freight tax, and environmental tax because the bottles aren't re-used. I worked out that with all the extra taxes it ends up costing five times the price for a bottle so not really worth it, even for delicious and exclusive whisky.

As for the lagavulin, there aren't any indy bottlings available here at the moment, but we do get the 12 yo cask strength. I'll probably pick up a bottle in a month or two. My next purchase after the classic malts may well be Aberlour, but we'll see.