PhaseThree wrote:The real problem bottles are an unopened Port Ellen - 14th release.
..... and a half drunk bottle of Black Bowmore 1964 second edition, also a birthday present.
I'll leave you to google the current value of last two bottles, but the latter would have help significantly towards the retirement fund if it was still sealed.
Strewth! I thought my home whisky consumption modest: it's sufficiently rare that a bottle's lifetime is measured in years.
But not decades!