One shot of this rare whiskey costs $3,000 — The Post taste-tests the oldest Irish single malt ever sold

This is 1 swanky sláinte.

Last month, Bushmills, nan world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery, released its constricted edition, 46-year-old whiskey — billed arsenic nan oldest Irish single-malt ever sold.

The mahogany sipper, hailing from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, besides sports 1 hefty value tag for New Yorkers not worried astir nan volatile marketplace and hoping for a taste.

Bottles of nan typical tone — officially christened “Bushmills 46-Year – The Secrets of nan River Bush” — were primitively priced astatine $12,500, and only 300 were made.

The erstwhile grounds for an aged azygous malt was 45 years, truthful Bushmills cracked nan casket conscionable successful clip to group a record.

“The casks will show you erstwhile it’s time. We fto each cask show america erstwhile it’s fresh and this whiskey told maine it was ready,” Bushmills’ Master Blender Alex Thomas told The Post.

And now New Yorkers are fresh to bask — if they tin spend it.

While nan 300 bottles quickly sold out, Big Apple imbibers looking to sample greatness tin bid up a changeable of Bushmills 46 for an eye-popping $2,980 earlier taxation and extremity astatine Fifth Avenue’s Peninsula edifice — wherever nan paper describes nan luxe liquor arsenic “velvety” pinch “notes of dried fruit, lukewarm spices.”

The Post tried a sample of nan high-end hooch and it tasted for illustration “caramel” and was “really smooth.” While it “doesn’t burn” going down, nan “blast from nan alcohol” was an “eye-opener.” The consensus? We’d bid it — if personification other was paying for it.

For a sobering comparison, a blip of nan bougie booze astatine nan Peninsula costs much than a night’s enactment successful nan pricey property’s Executive Suite upstairs.

The ritzy Midtown hostelry added a 2-ounce move of nan limited-edition whiskey to their paper connected a rainy St. Patrick’s Day, past period — which, incidentally, was nan first and past clip personification gambled connected nan glitter gulp sipping retired of a rocks solid astatine nan Clement Bar, nan spot told The Post.

The luxurious tipple will beryllium offered until nan bottle, which is stored nether fastener and cardinal successful a backmost office, runs barren — astir 11 shots from now, according to staff.

Feeling somewhat little spendy? Head northbound to The Plaza, wherever they’re asking a comparatively discounted $1,250 per changeable wherever respective group had enjoyed it. Further downtown, astatine Crane Club successful nan Meatpacking District, it’ll tally you $2,450.

Or instrumentality astir Midtown and extremity successful astatine The Elgin adjacent Rockefeller Center, wherever you’ll salary $1,400 — while supplies last.

That’s wherever an excited bartender precocious jumped up connected nan barroom to show disconnected an elegantly shaped, unopened vessel — tenderly cradling nan prized possession nether lamplight to respect nan precious liquid’s unique, enticing acheronian color.

“If I had nan money, I would salary for it, but I don’t person nan money,” head Connor Murphy joked to The Post, noting that he needs personification other to bid nan whiskey earlier he tin moreover unfastened nan bottle.

“I want to spot nan look connected their look erstwhile they effort it,” he said, suggesting he’d return nan smallest sampling imaginable sooner aliases later, “I will decidedly return a lick astatine immoderate stage.”

And who would blasted him? Certainly not Master Blender Thomas — 1 of nan fortunate fewer who person had nan grant of tasting nan acheronian whiskey aft it matured for astir half a century.

“For me, this isn’t conscionable a smooth, uncommon azygous malt whiskey, it is existent history successful nan making,” she told The Post.

“For 46 years, we’ve patiently watched complete this singular liquid and witnessed it toggle shape into this rich, acheronian beauty, profoundly authentic and afloat of flavor.

“This is Bushmills astatine its best.”

Thirsty for a pricey move yet? Bottoms up — but first, possibly return retired a loan.