It is reported in the press that a bottle of 75 years old whisky has been bought by an Indian for 20,000 pounds ( almost Rs. 10 lakh)! The bottle is half-empty, since during these long years in the oak-casket, it has lost half of the whisky as is usual, the loss being called as the ‘Angel’s Share.’ The whisky is costlier according to its number of years after manufacture. According to the Scots, Whisky is not whisky unless it is at least three years old.

On seeing this news, I remembered my visit to a Whisky company in Scotland. After showing the process of manufacture and supplying small quantity of the same, we were taken to the area where large stockpile of whisky are kept. On the huge oak-casks, the year of its manufacture is noted, some of which goes to 100 years!

Whiskey is one item, which is costlier by the years it passed by.