Last bottle of world's oldest single malt whisky leaves Scotland

AFP ^ | 2-25-05

[tortoise]

Any scotch over 30 years old taste poor, IMO.

Not so, but it has to be a very good scotch and handled very well. It is true that the run-of-the-mill single-malt shouldn't be in the barrel more than 20 years.

[Seattle Conservative]

"A former girlfriend ran out of her Canadian Mist one evening, so she poured my last shot of Glenfiddich into a glass of 7-Up... I entered the kitchen just as she set the empty bottle down."

Hmm, now I know why she's a 'former' girl friend.
I can relate - One of my 'former' boyfriends mixed some of my Scotch w Coke

[tortoise]

I prefer Islay myself, but I can appreciate this. The oldest I have is 40-year Laphroaig, and a cask-strength 29-year Bowmore, towering over the usual Lagavulin. Very smooth, the older stuff. Fortunately, bottles of Scotch last me forever so I've usually forgotten the price tag by the time the bottle is finished.

[SeaDragon]

so I've usually forgotten the price tag by the time the bottle is finished.

Lucky you.........

[xJones]

Oh! ye'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye:)

[battlegearboat]

Ah, the short squat bottle.

Yes, but only when out of Jamison's.

[blau993]

There was a very famous liquor store in DC years ago whose owner used to regularly bid on and buy very old bottles of wine. He, of course, displayed his "catches" in his store. I asked him one time just what he expected from a 100+ year old magnum currently on display. He said, "Great wine or great salad dressing -- one or the other."

[tjg]

Now, the perfect question to determine if you will make a good husband:

Do you prefer the glenfiddich in your 7-up, my dear? If so I'll run out and get another bottle.

[Calamari]

$93.65 for a dram if it is a 750 milliliter bottle!

[Max in Utah]

Ha, ha! There's no running out and getting another bottle after 7:00 pm in my neck of the woods.

Eventually I married another woman, who didn't like scotch.

[mamelukesabre]

I wonder...

I remember hearing a few years ago that he had given up drinking because of liver problems. Now that's all gone and he's drinking again. It does make one wonder.

[Max in Utah]

LOL... it's the "How could you possibly do that?" reaction.

[G Larry]

LOL!

I'm saving it for my 5th wedding aniversary.

(sobering note)

I'm 51 and still single.

Good Luck!

[Slainte]

Ah, there you go lad, finally someone talking about whiskey the way God intended it. I'm awfully fond of Redbreast myself. Very, very nice Irish whiskey.

It's a damn shame that the French have been buying up all the Irish ditilleries too. Jameson and Bushmills are both owned by Pernod Ricard now. And Diageo owns Guinness, just what is the world coming too?

[FreedomCalls]

Last year at New Year, we cracked a bottle of Old Forrester that had a 1954 tax seal on it

Ageing in the bottle does nothing for it. Ageing has to occur in the wooden cask. It's the chemical interaction between the alcohol and the charred wood that causes the taste to change. Once in the bottle no further changes take place. If it was 11 years old when bottled, it should still taste like 11-year old Scotch (or worse) when opened even if opened 30-40 years later.

[Arkinsaw]

I don't know if I could call it "worse". I can only glad I had no matches around. It really didn't have a whiskey taste, more of a PGA taste.

[Mike Darancette]

A $19,000 bottle of whiskey. I think I've found what it means to have too much money.

Say you have a shrewish wife and no-account kids who have made your life a living hell. What a fitting act it would be to, as one of your final acts, have them gather around and watch you drink that $19,000 bottle of hooch.

[Trajan88]

WWJD... who wants Jack Daniel's?

Heck, I do!

Trajan88

[battlegearboat]

Kind of you not to mention the mispelling.

Cheers and Roebucks!

[Pharmboy]

I wonder who the brain was that picked that name (Hong Kong's Chep Lap Kok Airport) for the airport.

No one who knew English...