You’ve heard stories about 100-year-old whiskey found in a dusty shipwreck. Those bottles survived because they were sealed with wax and kept in perfect, cold darkness. That’s the opposite of your decanter on a sunny kitchen counter.
If you want to impress your friends, tell them whiskey is immortal only when unopened. Once opened, it’s like a newly single person on vacation—it has a short window to be amazing before things get weird.
And here’s a weird fact: whiskey doesn’t spoil like food, so drinking old decanter whiskey won’t make you sick. You’ll just be disappointed. And disappointment is worse than food poisoning, because you can’t blame a bad chicken salad.
