Whisky Help

[y2johnny]

I'm a bit of a chav when it comes to whisky in that i drink JD.

I got given this bottle

http://picasaweb.google.com/edwynn/Liquor#49678585...

for my 21st 7 years ago and it looked pretty old from the label etc. from what i can see i think it is about 30 years old, and the plan is to keep it til my son is 18 (he is 2 in march)

I'm not very good with the value of things and was just wondering if anyone can put a year and value on it for me.

Thanks

ETA: that is a borrowed picture! but the same bottle.

Edited by y2johnny on Thursday 30th December 20:20

[PaulHogan]

The news is not good. Whiskey does not age in the bottle so a whiskey bottled as a 10 year old will still be a ten year old whiskey in 30 years time. Nor does whiskey improve in the bottle, unlike fine wines. So what was put in when it was bottled will be what you get when you open it. And finally your bottle is a blend of whiskies and not a single malt and as such unlikely to be of any value to a collector except maybe for the vintage packaging (label).

[marshalla]

Whiskey = Irish or American
Whisky = Scotch

[Lefty]

PaulHogan said:

The news is not good. Whiskey does not age in the bottle so a whiskey bottled as a 10 year old will still be a ten year old whiskey in 30 years time. Nor does whiskey improve in the bottle, unlike fine wines. So what was put in when it was bottled will be what you get when you open it. And finally your bottle is a blend of whiskies and not a single malt and as such unlikely to be of any value to a collector except maybe for the vintage packaging (label).

Not that i disagree with your point regarding this particular bottle 9I( don't know anything about vintage Bells) but to say that blends are unlikely to be of value to a collector isn't really true.

I saw a Chivas 25yo go through auction at £2500. Google Royal Salute 40 or 50yo. Or any of the "special" bottlings of JW Blue.

[PaulHogan]

To be fair, if a blend is special, old and bloody expensive when new it is likely to remain so all its' life. An ordinary blend with no age declaration is not likely to ever go for much more than the current price of an ordinary blend.
However a malt bought today and kept for many years is almost guaranteed to rise in value: perhaps only in line with inflation but possibly to many thousands of pounds.