Last summer when i was in scotland i bought a whisky from the year i was born 1968 and it was bottled in 2008 after it had been matured for 40 years in a barrel I will open it when I will be 50 in about 6years.
This reminds me of the old joke with the punchline: "This tastes like urine (sic), It is, now tell me how old I am." I too admire your patience in this gotta have it now world.
Once upon a time, and this will amuse those TMF members who've met me IRL, I was a Corporate Husband. My ex wife of over a decade ago (the tragically vanilla one) was executive assistant to the Chairman of a global beverage group that among other wineries and vineyards owned some of the finest distilleries in Scotland.
Once she and I were flown North to visit various Scottish distilleries situated in the remote Highlands on behalf of the company, and naturally were invited to sample the finest product of each by the respective managers. Each distillery was situated next to a stream ('burn' in the Scots dialect) from which the water used in making the whisky was drawn, and the different properties of the various streams were said to give each brand of whisky its own particular flavour.
Sampling the ancient whiskies generously pressed upon us, mixed with the water of the same burn from which they were made, was quite an experience. At one establishment, the mixing water was collected by tossing a small WW1 shell casing, (which a veteran- ancestor of one of the workers had brought back in 1918 as a souvenir of his army service) on a string from a bridge into the burn, and drawing it up. At any rate it's an excellent way of dealing with the awful weather usually encountered in those regions.
Here's a link to the most expensive Scotches in the world.
Libertine - Scotch from 1926? 86 years old? Forget for the moment how much it costs. Think of all that cask has sat through (including two world wars). What were the odds we'd be seeing a bottle of it on the web?
Bel, I'm envious. That being said, I don't know if I currently have the willpower to last 6 years, knowing it's waiting for me. I'd probably jus be like "What's 6 years? I wanna get drunk now!" lol