Not old, dear man, venerable. (Now, can someone explain to me why "venerable" doesn't mean "subject to having venery practiced on one"? Or does it? Linn would be a good person to answer this. Don'tcha just love English?)

And delicate, like 75-year old single malt. You probably wouldn't ship that across the country either, unless you had a temperature- and shock-controlled Anvil case for it.