42 Year Old Whisky

Looking for the ideal gift for someone's 42nd birthday? Clearly the perfect present for the whisky enthusiast who is turning Forty two is a bottle of 42 year old whisky. Or maybe you just want to treat yourself!

The age statement on a whisky label tells you the age of the youngest whisky in the bottle. What does this mean? Put simply, a bottle of whisky may contain whiskies matured in a number of different casks for different periods of time. If the label says that the whisky is 42 Years Old (or Forty two Years Old) then, although it may contain older whiskies, you can be certain that none of components are any younger than 42 years.

Once a whisky is bottled it ceases its maturation, unlike wine which continues to age in the bottle, so Forty two year old whisky is frozen in time and will be considered 42 forever.