{"id":81873,"date":"2015-03-05T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=81873"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:34:22","slug":"fnb-offers-exclusive-whiskies-to-richest-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/81873\/fnb-offers-exclusive-whiskies-to-richest-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB offers exclusive whiskies to richest clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First National Bank is offering its private and platinum banking clients through its\u00a0online Whisky Live Festival Shop.<\/p>\n<p>The offer is limited, with only a few select whiskies available from 5 to 6 march, while stocks last.<\/p>\n<p>The bank is offering the Signatory Vintage Imperial Single Malt Scotch Whisky for R670 a bottle, with two pricier options in the form of the Glenfiddich Age of Discovery Single Malt Scotch (R1,399) and the Balblair 2000 Highland Single Malt Scotch (R1,490).<\/p>\n<p>Only 168 bottles of the Balblair 2000 have been produced, and 102 of them are available through this offer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Whisky<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Limited availability\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Signatory Vintage Imperial Single Malt Scotch Whisky<\/td>\n<td>270\u00a0bottles<\/td>\n<td>R670<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Glenfiddich Age of Discovery Single Malt Scotch Whisky<\/td>\n<td>252 bottles<\/td>\n<td>R1,399<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Balblair 2000 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky<\/td>\n<td>102 bottles<\/td>\n<td>R1,490<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>FNB runs the annual Whisky Live Festival, which includes its own licenced online whisky store. The festival caters to over 20,000 &#8220;high-LSM&#8217; whisky lovers, according to the group.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 festival will be running from Friday 11 November to Sunday 13 November loater this year.<\/p>\n<p>Makro made waves in 2014 by offering the limited edition bottle of Chivas\u2019 Royal Salute Tribute to Honour for the &#8220;promotional&#8221; price of R2 million.<\/p>\n<p>While that offer is no longer available, the wholesaler is still selling the Balvenie 50 year old Speyside Single Malt Whisky for R539,999, exclusively online.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on luxury goods<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Most expensive whisky in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/70909\/most-expensive-whisky-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Most expensive whisky in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government raises taxes, hikes electricity levy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/80771\/government-raises-taxes-hikes-electricity-levy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government raises taxes, hikes electricity levy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The most popular luxury investments\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75694\/the-most-popular-luxury-investments\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most popular luxury investments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First National Bank is offering its private and platinum banking clients through its online Whisky Live Festival Shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":81881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[25,76,9563],"class_list":["post-81873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-active","tag-fnb","tag-whisky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81893,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81873\/revisions\/81893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}