Originally Posted By: Turnbull
Originally Posted By: olivant

Pre-war meant that it was aged.

Brown spirits can improve with cask ageing, but do not improve once they're bottled. Sol's little cachet about "pre-war" was meaningless: the scene was set in late 1945. Probably no Scotch had reached America during WWII, so any Scotch on hand had to have been pre-war.


True Scotch is aged for at least 3 years. So Bruno's offer would have been for possibly 4 year old scotch which would not have been all that unusual.

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