Aldi to sell bargain 40-year-old whisky for £50 instead of '£300'

Bargain supermarket Aldi is to sell a 40-year-old Scottish whisky with a whopping £250 discount.



The whisky, made in a Scottish distillery in 1971, will be available for £49.99 instead of the supposed usual selling price of £300 from 8 December.



But with just six or seven bottles in each store - the cut-price alcohol is expected to sell out fast.

Cheap tipple: Bargain supermarket chain Aldi is planning to sell bottles of the whisky across its 450 UK stores

The low cost chain said that it expects 'queues out of the door' when it sells 3,000 bottles across its 450 stores.



A spokesman for the supermarket said: 'Whisky of this quality and age would usually sell for around £300 plus.



'Aldi is giving customers the chance to get hold of a very high quality luxury product for a very low price.'

With many 40-year-old whiskys available from upwards of £100, but some costing in the region of £300, doubts have been cast on whether the bottles Aldi is offering are worth the price it says.

He added that he would not be surprised to see the whisky appearing for sale on eBay with customers taking advantage of the discount price of £49.99.

Sells on eBay are not allowed to sell alcohol for 'consumption' but can get around this clause by selling it as a collectable.

The limited edition, Speyside Single Malt Whisky comes from an unnamed Scottish distillery.



Aldi will also be selling 3,000 bottles of a 24-year-old single malt whisky in its stores for £29.99 from November 24.