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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING OLD

he word ‘new’ is often said to be the most used and abused term in sales and marketing. For whisky, though, it’s ‘old’ that gets rolled out the most. ‘Old’ entered the whisky lexicon at the beginning of the 19th century, gaining popularity over the next 150 years. The appeal of ‘old’ was twofold. One usage described the sale of aged whisky, not raw or

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