Bourbons

[ggiese]

You are wrong, Scotch and most hard liquors do not spoil when the bottle is open. It tastes just as good now as it did when I bought it. Wine on the other hand starts to oxidize immediately and is no good in twenty four hours if you don't "pump" (suck the air out of) the bottle. There is precious little, if anything in an 80+ proof bottle of booze to oxidize so the taste will not change. If you think it does, you're imagining things.

If you think I'm wrong, go "goggle" it.

Have a friend whose wife was "cleaning up" his scotch collection. She assumed all of his half empty bottles were "spoiled" so she poured them down the drain...

Winston - just had a dram of King Alexander with my brother over the weekend. I don't think it is one bit less pleasurable than the day I opened it nearly 10 years ago. I agree with CC - as long as you keep it corked it's as good as the day you open it.