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A few years ago, many distilleries and brands were removing age statements from their bottles, due to what they said was the result of demand outpacing supply. That wasn’t limited to scotch: Bourbon, Japanese , and to some degree Irish whiskey suffered the same fate. But the trend seems to be in reverse, with the latest example coming from two distilleries— and Glen Scotia—who recently reintroduced two new pairs of age-statement whiskies to the U.S. market.
Of course, age is just a number—a whiskey or whisky is not necessarily better just because it’s older, and sometimes the reverse is true. Brands like the , , and removed age statements over the p