A very expensive hangover
The world's oldest malt whisky which costs as much as US$15,000 (yes...fifteen thousand dollars!) a bottle, has gone on sale in ScotlandThe Mortlach 70-year-old Speyside was sampled by a select group of selected tasters at a ceremony in Edinburgh Castle.
Bottles of this rare piece of Scotland's 'liquid history' are now on the market. Unfortunately only 54 full-size bottles, costing US$15,000 each, and 162 smaller bottles at US$3,750 have been made available.
The whisky has been released under Gordon and MacPhail's Generations brand.
Filled into a cask on October 15, 1938, 72 years later the decision was made to empty the cask and bottle the whisky. It has been described it as a malt 'without comparison'.
This rare tipple has been matured in a former sherry cask made from Spanish oak. It was been bottled in a teardrop shaped hand blown crystal decanter with a silver lid.
Whisky writer Charles MacLean described the dram as 'delicate, fresh, vital and fruity', with hints of waxiness and smokiness and while speaking at the launch, he said 'It's the oldest cask of whisky that, in my knowledge, has ever been bottled.
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