A buddy showed up the other night with a couple of bottles from a wooden case of twelve he found in a basement belonging to an old guy who was paying him to do some remodeling work. When asked if he could buy it, the guy gave it to him as a tip! Ballantine Scotch, and according to the tax stamps, bottled in 1953. Now, like the rest of y'all, I'm a single malt guy (make mine Laphroiag, please, or anything else from the Isle of Islay) but this stuff is smoooooth, aged in the bottle since the year I was born! Bless his heart, he "forgot" to take one of the bottles home with him. It was the same whisky Richard Burton drank all the time in the movie "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold"- same squat, square bottle with a white diamond-shaped label.
I know, supposedly bottle aging doesn't do a thing for whisky but something happened to this stuff as it's nothing like any blended whisky I ever drank.
Last edited by gnoahhh; 03/11/10.
