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World's oldest whisky goes on sale for Â£10,000 a bottle. The world's oldest malt whisky has gone on sale with a price tag of up to Â£10,000 a bottle. Kris Green and Alan Leiper move the barrel of 70 year old Single Malt Scotch Whisky in Edinburgh Photo: GETTY.
Scotch whisky is divided into five distinct categories: single malt Scotch whisky, single grain Scotch whisky, blended malt Scotch whisky (formerly called vatted malt or pure malt), blended grain Scotch whisky, and blended Scotch whisky. All Scotch whisky must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years. whisky with an age statement is known as guaranteed-age whisky. The first written mention of Scotch whisky is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, 1495. A friar named John Cor was the distiller at Lindores Abbey in the Kingdom of Fife.