Japanese whisky hit a new milestone on January 30: A bottle of 50-year-old Yamazaki became the most expensive bottle of Japanese whisky ever sold at auction, fetching a price of HK$2.3 million ...

Simply dubbed The Glenrothes 50-year-old, the whisky was distilled in 1968. The same year that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Nixon won the White House and Apollo 8 orbited the moon.

The Speyside whisky was first bottled to mature in April 1964 and is one of the world's few collections of 50-year-old single malts. It is cared for by seven master distillers. Two of the 100 ...