Does a 12 yrs whisky kept for 5 yrs make it 17 yrs old?

Question

How do we judge the value of vintage bottle?

Answer 1

No. whiskey is "aged" in the barrels or casks.  As soon as it is bottled, the aging stops.

Answer 2

No

Answer 3

Balt tigger is right, once out of the barrel the aging process stops, but something else happens, and this only happens to very old spirits. They concentrate.

My father had a bottle of Chevas Regal. 12 years old in the bottle. He got it when I was 5. He put it away, for 20 years. When my first daughter was born, he gave it to me.

d**n! It was smooth! But there was some missing from it, and it hadn't been opened yet.

Where did it go I asked?

"The angels took some" was all he said

Answer 4

Aging is the process where a spirit like whisky is changed by the slow absorption and expression through wood. The sharper flavors and alcohol are mellowed and new flavors like wood sugars are picked up. The best flavors come from Oak, which is why all whiskies and most wines are stored in oak barrels.

Once you remove a WINE from a barrel, the aging process changes. While in the bottle a small amount of air gets through the cork and slowly ages the wine.

Once you remove whisky from a barrel, the aging process also changes and the age stamped on the bottle is set. When you say a whisky is 17 years old, it means that it spend 17 years in a barrel. To state that it's spent a lot of time in the bottle you would give the year it was bottled, as with a Macallan 1970 32 year old. The only exception is if you were to get another barrel, you could empty your bottle into it and continue to age it. You can buy small barrels for this, and it's an interesting (if slow) way to improve your whisky collection. Buy cheap single malts + put them in barrels for 10 years.

As I said, once in a bottle the whisky continues to change unless the top is wax-sealed to prevent it. Air moves in through the cork or cap and the whisky will start to oxidize and the alcohol can evaporate. Sometimes this aging is positive, but usually it doesn't really help the taste much.

The value of a bottle of anything depends on how hard it is to find, how much people want it and how much those people are willing to spend. There are a few general price guides, but they'll really only cover very hard to find bottles of unusual vintage. Otherwise, it's worth whatever someone will pay you for it. You can hit ebay and search to see if another bottle sold, which gives you a good feel for the market, or you could look at a few online retailers and see if they're selling anything similar.  

Answer 5

nope once it's out of the casket it stops aging.

sorry

Answer 6

whiskey only ages as long as it's in a cask.  as soon as it's bottled it stops aging

Answer 7

I think it stays at 12 yrs. Because it is in a bottle, and glass does not help in fermentation.  And the value of vintage, is relative to the guy who wants to buy the vintage wine, whiskey, car, painting etc..

Peace.