Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Especially in today's seemingly precarious and unsettled world, it really does seem like everything was better in the old days. In truth, of course, some things indeed were. But was whisky one of them?
Isn't it perhaps the truth that whisky has simply ‘aged’ (either in cask - or bottle!) and what we taste now is quite different due to that process?
Well, possibly, but that would be comparing new to old and we've kind of done that before - and will do it again.
What we're focusing on here is the meat and bones part of the discussion, the organic element - us. Our own nostalgia.
Many of us have those bottles that once were and now are not. That's a fact. But what do we do about it? And what about the poor folk who never had? They only hear vicariously of these fantastic experiences told, ever more vividly each time, about how fantastic these old, long-gone whiskies used to be. What can we do?
Well, it's the vPub, so don't tune in for solutions, only suggestions.
While we do that, I'll open one or two 'long-goners' that, despite being quite recognisable, reach way back to decades past. They all sit in Scotch whisky’s maturation sweet spot and all are held dear by those who came to whisky's side through their seductive presentation and profile as well as, at the time at least, value.
I may surprise you at how accessible these can, occasionally, still be.
Especially in today's seemingly precarious and unsettled world, it really does seem like everything was better in the old days. In truth, of course, some things indeed were. But was whisky one of them?
Isn't it perhaps the truth that whisky has simply ‘aged’ (either in cask - or bottle!) and what we taste now is quite different due to that process?
Well, possibly, but that would be comparing new to old and we've kind of done that before - and will do it again.
What we're focusing on here is the meat and bones part of the discussion, the organic element - us. Our own nostalgia.
Many of us have those bottles that once were and now are not. That's a fact. But what do we do about it? And what about the poor folk who never had? They only hear vicariously of these fantastic experiences told, ever more vividly each time, about how fantastic these old, long-gone whiskies used to be. What can we do?
Well, it's the vPub, so don't tune in for solutions, only suggestions.
While we do that, I'll open one or two 'long-goners' that, despite being quite recognisable, reach way back to decades past. They all sit in Scotch whisky’s maturation sweet spot and all are held dear by those who came to whisky's side through their seductive presentation and profile as well as, at the time at least, value.
I may surprise you at how accessible these can, occasionally, still be.
