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Whiskies by Age

Browse our whisky database by the age of the Whisky. The 'age' of a whisky is the time it spent in the 'cask' before being bottled. The longer a whisky remains in the cask, the more flavour it will acquire and the less spirit will remain.

3 years old Mackmyra Preludium 02.	4 years old Isle of Arran 4 Years Old. A lovely whisky for one so young. What will it be like at two or three times this age?
5 years old Cadenhead's Bourbon 5 Years Old. Just too woody for me, though a good splash of water brings out the other flavours.	6 years old Booker's 6 Years Old. Wonderfully expansive. Seems to embrace the tastes of the south, all the way from Kentucky to Louisiana.
7 years old Baker's 7 Years Old. Good flavour development. Well balanced.	8 years old Glen Garioch 8 Years Old. I love the peaty, burnt notes notes in this robustly malty whisky.
9 years old Knob Creek 9 Years Old. Easily drinkable, appetising.	10 years old The Balvenie 10 Years Old, Founder's Reserve. The most honeyish of Speyside malts?
11 years old Adelphi Clynelish 11 Years Old. I normally rate Clynelish very highly, but this bottling leaves its fireworks until the last minute, and with more heat than light.	12 years old Aberfeldy 12 Years Old. Refreshing and light-hearted. Almost too playful to take seriously.
13 years old An Cnoc 13 Years Old, Limited Edition Highland Selection. A pale, shimmery gold dram with flavours one expects from a bigger, darker, whisky. Slightly odd, but enjoyable. Could be a flavoured spirit from a little-known, newly independent republic in Central Asia.	14 years old Clynelish 14 Years Old. The most rounded of this Clynelish threesome. The fuller gold colour suggests more contribution from the wood.
15 years old Caol Ila 15 Years Old. A wonderfully aperitif. Smoked fish to follow?	16 years old Dailuaine 16 Years Old. Almost too perfect. Beautifully put together, but not quite memorable.
17 years old Eagle Rare 17 Years Old. Some interesting flavours, with lots of dimensions, but no balance or structure. I’m not wild about Angel Delight.	18 years old Sazerac 18 Years Old Straight Rye. A trifle sophisticated for my tastes, but a very fine rye whiskey.
19 years old Glen Elgin 19 Years Old, Centenary Bottling. For me, the classic example of Speyside heather-honey character. A beautifully rounded, characterful, elegant, whisky.	20 years old Rare Malts Caol Ila 1977, 20 Years Old. A wonderful aperitif. Who would have thought of a Scotch to precede Greek food?
21 years old Speyburn 21 Years Old. Very restrained, but lovely gentle peat smoke.	22 years old Rare Malts Glen Mhor 1979, 22 Years Old. A rare delight.
23 years old Caol Ila 23 Years Old. All the oily, waxy, junipery, bush-like flavours of Caol Ila, but the whiff of the sea comes late.	24 years old Cadenhead's Banff 24 Years Old. The best Banff I have tasted. Shows its age but the finish reveals real depth and staying power.
25 years old Rare Malts Cardhu 1973, 25 Years Old. For teatime – more fun than Darjeeling.	26 years old Cadenhead's Convalmore-Glenlivet 26 Years Old. A welcome opportunity to taste a rare whisky, though it was never a classic, and in this instance is over the hill (or the Conval Hills?).
27 years old Ladyburn 1973, 27 Years Old. I am pleased that this very rare malt has been made available. Ladyburn is a product about which I am frequently asked. Sad to say, its greatest appeal is as a collector's item.	28 years old Rare Malts Glenury Royal 28 Years Old. An elegant middleweight after the oak-fisted heavyweight 23 Years Old in the same series.
29 years old Glen Garioch 1968, 29 Years Old. With its chestnut colour and highly distinctive flavours, this is a wonderfully wintery whisky.	30 years old Glenfiddich 30 Years Old. Luxurious, but in a restrained, understated way.
31 years old Auchentoshan 1966, 31 Years Old. A fine whisky, but does something as fresh and soft benefit from quite so much ageing?	32 years old Signatory The Glenrothes 1968 32 Years Old. Less soft than the younger expression. A drier, more robust, expression.
33 years old Balblair 33 Years Old. A whisky that starts life with some restraint has certainly developed over the years.	34 years old Hart Brothers Strathisla 34 Years Old. Classic Strathisla, in good shape for it's age.
35 years old Classic Cask Scotch whisky, 35 Years Old. Slightly woody in aroma, but develops nicely.	36 years old Old Malt Cask North Port 36 Years Old. Of interest to collectors, historians and the likes of me, but this Brechin brew, staunched in 1983, never made a great whisky.
37 years old Scotch Malt Whisky Society Old Fettercairn, 37 Years Old, 94.3. An elegant, elderly chatelaine.	38 years old Duncan Taylor Invergordon 1965 38 Years Old. Such a long ageing has made the bourbon wood very dominating. The crisp, cleansing, hint of pine in the distillery bottling better suited a single grain.
39 years old Bunnahabhain 1968 Cask 7020 39 Years Old.	40 years old Glenfarclas 40 Years Old, Millennium Edition. Some of the voluptuousness has sagged with age.
41 years old Duncan Taylor Invergordon 1965 Cask 15517 41 Years Old.	42 years old Scott's Selection Lochside 1964, 42 Years Old.
43 years old Gordon & MacPhail Glenugie 1968, 43 Years Old. Oak is not as prevailing on the nose as on the palate. An exotic profile. Reminds me of Irish whiskey. Interesting richness. Avoid water.	44 years old Old Malt Cask Auchroisk, 44 Years Old.
45 years old Scott's Selection North of Scotland 1964, 45 Years Old.	50 years old The Macallan 1949, 50 Years Old, Millennium. A beautifully composed, luxurious whisky.
51 years old The Macallan 1948, 51 Years Old. Drink it and travel back in time. It is one of the finest malts I have ever tasted.	52 years old The Macallan 1949, 52 Years Old, Vintage. Not much evidence of alcohol. Elegant but frail. Doesn’t approach the 1948 I tasted a few years ago.
56 years old The Macallan 1945, 56 Years Old, Vintage. Very lively, but ill-tempered. I kept expecting it to propose the return of military service, or demand that I had my hair cut.	60 years old Gordon & MacPhail Mortlach 1938, 60 Years Old. A great age, but it has matured beautifully.

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