as a result, there is a growing shortage of whisky.for example, a bottle of pappy van winkle 15 that went for 47 dollars in 2007, now costs an average of 12 hundred dollars online. brad estabrooke of breucklenlen distilling company says the price is related to perception. 02:56 brad estabrooke, founder of breuckelen distilling company"in the market there's a perception that the older it is, the better it must be. i think a lot of people are drawn to the idea that if something has been in the barrel for 25 or 30 years, is must really be worth a lot of money, it must really be delicious."whisky is made from barley grains which go through a process of malting....mashing... ..fermentation,,,,,and distillation. the spirit is put into oak barrels for maturation. the longer the spirit is stored, the more desirable it becomes.03:15 brad estabrooke, founder of breuckelen distilling company "there is also an element of limited supply with those older whiskys. obviously, to have a 30 year old barrel of whisky, some of the whisky evaporates every year, so there's not really much of it." 22:18 au

for example, a bottle of pappy van winkle that went for $47 now costs an average of $1,200 online. brad of brooklyn distilling says the price is related to perception. >> in the market, there's a perception the older it is, the better it must be. so i think a lot of people are drawn to this idea if something has been in the barrel for 25, 30 years, it must be worth a lot of money, must be delicious. >> reporter: whiskey is made for barley grains which go through malting, mashing, fermentation and distilling. the spirit is put into oak barrels for maturation. >> there's an element of limited supply with the older whiskeys. to have a 30--year-old barrel of whiskey, some of the whiskey evaporates every year. there's not much of that. >> reporter: favorable laws are popping up in california, oregon and new york. right here in brooklyn, there are over 20 distilleries producing spirits. it's asia that is believed to have sparked the shortage. their interest has been growing. even japanese whiskey has been getting a lot of attention lately with last month's release of this sherry cask pri

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it's a six bottle vertical pappy van winkle. if you're a bourbon person, this is a once in a lifetime. these are signed by the father and the son. you also get a tour of the distillery. so if you're a bourbon person, get your ticket. >> i haven't. jonathan: i wonder if randi has. anything else we should know about the event before i tell them when it's going to be and where? >> yes. we have a wonderful lineup of auction items. we have a real trip to paris to see the moulin rouge. we have dinner with andrew whitworth at the precinct. jonathan: you can glad hand with randi rico. the cure starts now gala will be at the duke energy center, saturday, march 19 from 5:30 until 11:00. gets ticket right now by going to the on tv section at wlwt.com then clicking on the as seen on section. thanks for coming in. still a lot more ahead on news 5 today, including downtown being a place for those wanting to celebrate their irish heritage. coming up. and your live look outside. hill. could be wet. i don't know. sprinkle possible for a while on

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this is the rip van winkle's party whose leadership has finally woken up after donald trump was amassing votes. they're going to try to stop him. the very people donald trump is running against, they're going to say to his voters, change your mind. good luck with that. the leaders of a political party, the party of lincoln and reagan running another candidate in a general election? we may destroy our party. we may decide to break it because we don't want him to have it. if he wins it by the vote, i think they call that democracy, if he wins that, we're going to break it. it's extraordinary. >> or we'll have this convention where we basically make a deal and bring somebody else in or decide for ourselves no matter what people have voted. that's not going to go over well. >> there's no good scenario. even in the unlikely scenario you were able to deny donald trump the convention, the nomination of the convention. the chances of him running as a third party candidate would be very high and resentment -- these are people that dislike, loathe their leadership already. can you imagine how they