World's oldest bottle of whisky

[zilla369]

Glenfiddich to Auction the World's Oldest Bottle of Whisky

EDISON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2006--William Grant & Sons, Inc. announces the auction of the world's oldest whisky, Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937, on April 4, 2006 in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal. As part of New York's Tartan Week celebrations, a week-long series of activities highlighting Scottish culture and heritage, Glenfiddich has partnered with City Harvest, a noted New York-based charity, to auction one of the four remaining bottles of this exceptionally rare spirit.

RSVP required to attend the auction. If anyone from eGullet attends, I hope they will post about it here afterwards.

[zilla369]

Went for $20,000.

Video of the auction

[bacchant036]

thats funny i just bought a 1913 whiskey,

are we quibbling over an 'e' again?

[culinary bear]

Whisky, unlike wine, does not develop further once removed from the cask and bottled. A 1967 whisky bottled in 1977 is going to be a very different whisky to a 1967 bottled in 1997, for example.

While obviously not the world's oldest whisky - Wm Cadenheads on Edinburgh's Royal Mile have several 'old bottlings' from the 1920s - this may well be the 'most (cask) aged' whisky known to exist.