Hi Karen, £50 sounds OK to me - It's listed on the Hart Brothers' Web site at £70. On the other hand, £35 for a bottle of 12 YO sounds criminally expensive - you can buy it here in the UK for £20 or less if you wait for supermarket special offers! As for why so few women enjoy malt whisky, I don't know - it does (unfortunately) seem to be a male-dominated preserve, although happily there are a few exceptions. Maybe it has something to do with how few men like Bailey's, Cointreau and all the other stuff my girlfriends have drunk over the years... :-)