I would like to do a little high jacking here and seek advice.
Have two bottles of Pre-war Scotch whisky. A Red Hackle and a Pinch.
They were my dad’s. He had to quit drinking and never got around to them.
Have talked to some ‘experts’ who say the best thing to do is open them up and enjoy them before any evaporation occurs. I’m pretty sure I am not sitting on any gold mines. Impossible to date them. Bottles are full and corks look good. I am almost 70 years old and the youngest sibling in a family of scotch drinkers.
I say next gathering, I pop the corks. What say you?
Not sure I’d want to sit with family to share. Personally I’d have a get together with my veteran friends where we could exchange lies, I mean war stories.
I say you should all enjoy and toast your father.
Liquor quits aging when it is bottled.
If the seal is good and/or the bung has been kept wet, it should taste the same as when bottled. If evaporation or oxidation has occurred, not so much.
“I say next gathering, I pop the corks. What say you?”
Do it. It’d be a shame to let it go to waste.
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I have some Red Hackle Scotch as well. I’ve heard that in the distant past it was British “Issue” Scotch.
How well do you like your family?
I dispatched part of a bottle of Pinch in early 1970 prior to my wedding day. They quit making the real version in the 80s as i understand it as the unique bottle was costly. Haig & Haig has bottled some stuff with the same name periodically.