One of my favourite personal whisky stories, one that I tell every chance I get, involves a trip to Scotland in 2013. There, I met Ian Logan, international brand ambassador for single malt brand The Glenlivet, who was kind enough to drive me around to visit the Glenlivet and Strathisla distilleries.

While at the Glenlivet distillery, we visited one of the warehouses, and I saw a cask that had 1977 on it, my birth year. I mentioned this to Logan, and he said, “Ha! I have something for you.”