"age statement" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase when you want to refer to a declaration or statement of a person's age. For example: "You must provide an age statement in order for us to process your application."
"So there's going to be less emphasis on age statement.
Today, bonsai are not just a status symbol, but also a new age statement.
The whiskey, a permanent addition to the Russell's Reserve line, has no age statement, but it is roughly eight to nine years old: Available in early March, $50 for a 750-milliliter bottle, wildturkeybourbon.com.
One of the company's most popular whiskies is its cheapest, Bruichladdich Rocks, which promises to let consumers commune with "the oldest rocks in the whisky world!" Bruichladdich Rocks doesn't carry an age statement, but it is about six years old, and it spends its final few months of maturation in red-wine casks, which give the spirit a sprightly, pleasantly acidic taste.
By the way, when any Scotch has an age statement on its label, this indicates the age of the youngest whisky in the blend.
Consequently, there currently are three distinct tiers of blended Scotch whisky that consumers should be aware of: standard blends, or the inexpensive frontline blends that bear no age statement; deluxe or prestige blends that offer an age statement, usually from 8 to 12 years; and luxury blends, or the very expensive blended Scotch whiskies that are older than 12 years old.
Age statements don't carry the cachet they once did.
"I think that we got drawn, a little bit against our true feelings, into age statements," he says.
By law, age statements must reflect the age of the youngest spirit in the bottle; forgoing them gives distillers more flexibility, allowing them to combine malts of different vintages, some of which might be recent.
Simply looking at the available rums with age statements, it seemed a logical point of demarcation between rums that had received a moderate amount of time in barrels and those that saw extended aging.
Bruichladdich's ten-year problem was partly a marketing problem: malt drinkers have come to view age as a proxy for quality, and the industry has played along, using age statements to justify high prices.
