Marty’s liquor store (Newton, MA) has a bottle of Grant’s scotch whiskey, bottled in 1860. The price is impressive-$1200.00.
Would it taste good, or would you be buying essentially unflovored alcohol?
If the other whiskeys I’ve had are any indication, like burning ass.
If the bottle is well sealed, the whiskey should taste the same as it did the day it went into the bottle. Unlike wine, whiskey doesn’t age once it’s bottled.
That’d be a lotta money to pay only to end up with skunked scotch. Bleh
If it was carefully stored, and protected from light and oxygen, it would taste…like ass.
Like peppered vodka.
The founder of the Grant’s scotch whisky, William Grant, was born in 1839, got into the distillery business around 1866 and didn’t set up his own shop until 1887.
So I’m going to guess that this bottle tastes like forgery and dreams.
Maybe the OP misread the sign and it really says “1960.” In which case my evaluation still stands. Ass.
Blended scotch. Blech.
Possible.
Yeah, unless they’re being sold in sherry oak bottles (and how cool would that be?) they don’t age at all in the bottle. So the only thing that matters in terms of complexity of taste is how long it was sitting in a cask aging.
3 years is the minimum but I’d be wary of anything below 10.
And single malt scotch or whiskey is a pretty recent development. I honestly have no idea why it took distillers so long to figure out that they didn’t need to combine it with all their neighbors to get a good product. I’d imagine it has to do with the economics of a shorter brewing time combined with the fact that there weren’t “scotch snobs” who would pay more for a better tasting alcohol.
WAG
After the Jacobite Revolution, the English decided to destroy the Highlander way of life and put strict controls on the amount of scotch that a person could make. If you don’t combine it with a bunch of neighbors, you could never get enough to sell.
Oh, and for the OP . . .
ass
Just rechecked the bottle-it definately says Grant’s rare old scotch whisky-1860.
I just wonder why anyone would want it-maybe a conversation piece?
A few years ago the local paper did an article on some guy who named his kid either Jim Beam or Jack Daniels (I can’t remember which) and the local distributor gave him a decorative bottle of said liquor. 21 years later and, after one celebratory sip, they used the remained to fire up the Weber.
I’ll bet his hairy belly was hanging out from under his t-shirt and that celebratory sip washed down whatever remnants of Copenhagen were still clinging to the gums of said grille-master.
It’s just the vision I get from your post.
40 year old single malt goes for a hella lot more than that. And that is 40 year old single malt aged in the barrel…
Probably tastes like ass
Funny, that’s the exact same vision I got from reading your post.
I’ll gladly accept any and all remaining bottled whiskey from the posters in this thread who don’t care for it.
Considering the father-son duo were from Morrison County, MN, that’s probably not far from the truth. 