You’ve probably heard the saying, “You’re only as old as you feel.” It’s often accompanied by its well-worn colleague, “Age is just a number”. And when it comes to whisky, never a truer word was said!
In the context of whisky, your perspective on a bottling’s age is probably a function of when you started drinking the stuff. If you got into whisky more than 30 years ago, then a whisky’s age statement wasn’t much of a big deal to you. The vast majority of whisky available and being consumed was blends without age statements, and for the enlightened few who had discovered and preferred single malts, the small number of distilleries available showcased their whiskies with humble age statements typically between 8 to 12 years.
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