I wonder if any can point me in the right direction. I want to buy a someone a very special present, in this case a bottle of whiskey. But I've always had this idea that I could purchase one now that was just bottle and they would keep it for 20 years or so. Or the supplier would keep it and bottle it later. Do any services like this actually exist in the UK.
Thank you
Tony
I doubt it Tony. No spirits will improve in the glass; the "20 years old" type figures are about how long it was in the wooden cask, absorbing flavors and complexity from it. Once it's bottled it stays the same at best, and degrades if stored improperly (light, heat).
If you have a budget in mind for this gift and can tell the group anything at all about your gift-ee's preferences folks here can probably come up with options for you.
Hi,
Well the plan is a friend is having a baby and I really liked the idea of purchasing something now that would be ready or mature for them at say 16, 18, or 21 years old. It just a funny idea I've had and now I have the chance of actually doing, so I trying a little research to see if it's possible. Any recommendation gratfully received.
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While not scotch, I believe that the Labrot & Graham Bourbon distillery in Versailles, KY (owned by Brown Foreman) has previouisly offered a service along those lines. This offering would allow you to 'claim' a barrel of Woodford Reserve to-be including having your name burned into the lid of the barrel. They would bottle the bourbon upon maturation and provide you with the personalized barrel top. I am uncertain if this is still offered and could not verify it on their website. Perhaps it is just a hallucination on my part.
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You'd be better off with a good Bordeaux, or maybe a special box of cigars if you can get them properly stored. Whisky doesn't improve in the bottle; use it to celebrate with your friend when the baby is born.
HS
Or, perhaps, just buy a very fine bottle that was distilled in the year of the baby's birth and they can keep it (cool and dark storage) virtually unchanged until the baby is "of age". That would mean a current OB (official distillery bottling) of maybe a good 10-12yo, or maybe the Lagavulin 16 bottled this year.
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Hi Tony!
Similar questions have been raised here from time to time. You could do a Google search on the newsgroup, for instance with "birthday+distilled" as search words. But a good advice would probably be to wait until the occation approaches (for instance the 21th birthday), and then search for a whisky that have been distilled and barreled in 2006. Maybe you can even find one that have the precise date on the label. Here is a site where you can do a search with 'vintage' or 'age' as criteria:
Maybe someone else here know of other sites?
Gunnar
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