Among the many whisky releases we witness every year – from first releases and limited editions to rare, historical drams – some stand out.
Take, for example, the 80-year-old Gordon & MacPhail whisky, the world’s oldest single malt from The Glenlivet Distillery drawn from a single cask from 1940.
Limited to only 250 decanters, this whisky was presented in an elegantly structured decanter and an oak case designed by architect Sir David Adjaye OBE. Last year, a single cask for this rare release fetched US$193,000 (S$271,180) at a Sotheby’s auction, which leaves 249 bottles.
“If there are only 250 bottles, every time a bottle is opened, that’s 0.4 percent of the production gone. For some of them,
