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

AFP ^ | 2-25-05

[Michael121]

Get the Glenfiddich much better more smooth the only thing I drink.

Sad that the bottle is going to Hong Kong

[dljordan]

My family used to age their whiskey in the bottle for two sometimes three weeks. Then they'd run it into Nashville and sell it to connoisseurs.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hi, Dan!

"...'chocolate and treacle' flavours...

If you men would just smarten up and feed this to us females on a regular (as in 'cyclical') basis, your problems in life would be few! ;)

Mmmmm...Scotch! Mmmmm...Chocolate! Mmmmm...Treacle! (FYI: Treacle is a deep, rich, robust, tastily refined sugar.)

Guys? Love ya, but...Get. A. Clue.

[macrahanish #1]

We tried 17 different kinds of scotch when we were on a golf trip to Scotland in 2002. We all agreed that Glenfiddich and Glenlivet were the worse scotch we tried. We really liked Ardbeg and Lagavulin.

[SeaDragon]

Sad that the bottle is going to Hong Kong

Sad indeed........... :-(

[BibChr]

When we toured Gelgoyne distillery our guide said that past a certain point whiskey, unlike wine, did not improve with age.

Dan

[pissant]

Well, if someone offers me a taste of a 50 yo scotch, I won't turn it down!

[Fester Chugabrew]

HERETIC!

[moonhawk]

"...I've given up scotch for Lent anyway, so this means nothing to me..."

I hated to do it, but I gave up kicking my cat.

[BibChr]

16 yr Lagavulin.

Mmmm... ahhhhhhh.....

[WoofDog123]

I think scotch gets into the category of things like coffee, cigars, etc. For people that get into it and over initial yuchiness, there is a wide world of taste and variety to explore.

[WoofDog123]

Have you opened the laphroaig 40yo? If so, what did you think of it? Reviews consistently put it just below the 30yo OB that came out about the same time, though i have not yet tried either.

[WoofDog123]

"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."

I have read claims by knowledgables that even an unopened bottle of cork-top scotch will slowly oxidize over maybe a decade...once it is opened and some liquid volume removed this picks up quite a bit.

[blastdad51]

Scotch is an acquired taste.

Kinda reminds me of the time as kids we were siphoning/stealing gas and I got a big snoot full. Now I neither drink scotch or put my mouth on a hose with gas on the other end!

[SunkenCiv]

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