50-year-old Macallan malt whiskey
While Thai and Chinese businessmen splashed out on bottles of Pomerol 61 and Romanee-Conti 85 in the years leading up to the crash of the Tiger economies in the late 1990s, Japanese captains of industry were impressing their corporate friends with equally expensive bottles of Scotch, which they would crack open after work and down in one sitting.
Oenophiles might spit into their buckets, but there are indeed bottles of malt whisky like this 50-y…