Vorsichtig hebt Manny Myburgh die Flasche aus ihrer Eichenkiste. „Dies ist der Maybach unter den Whiskies.“ verkündet er stolz.
Die Flasche Glenfiddich ist eine der seltensten, ältesten und teuersten. „Der Whisky wurde 1937 destilliert und abgefüllt in 2001, was ihn mit 64 Jahren Reifezeit zu einem der ältesten der Welt macht.“
Brothers net oldest bottle of whisky
Johannesburg: Carefully, Manny Myburgh lifted the bottle from its oak box.
„This,“ he proudly proclaimed, „is the Maybach among whiskies.“
„Or the Picasso,“ his brother Phillip added, standing in their upmarket Caffé Della Salute in Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton yesterday.
The bottle of Glenfiddich that Myburgh was handling was one of the rarest, oldest and most expensive.
„It was distilled in 1937 and bottled in 2001, making it, with 64 years of maturation, by far the oldest whisky available on the planet,“ said Andries Kruger, a representative of the official distributor for Glenfiddich in South Africa, who handed over the bottle to its new owners…