Scotch whisky: 85-year-old release to become world’s oldest Whisky Gordon & MacPhail has announced plans to release the world’s oldest single malt Scotch whisky this October — an 85-year-old expression from Glenlivet Distillery. The whisky was laid down in a single American oak cask on 3 February 1940 by George Urquhart and his father, John, founders of the family-run business based in Elgin, Scotland. [...]