In good news for Scotch whisky lovers everywhere, a discovery in the Antarctic may enable distillers to revive a blend that’s been lost for years:
Three crates of Scotch whisky and two crates of brandy buried under Antarctic ice for more than 100 years have been recovered by a heritage team restoring Irish-born explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut.
New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust team leader Al Fastier says he believes some bottles, abandoned by Shackleton at Cape Royds when he was forced to abort his Nimrod expedition to the South Pole in 1909, are still intact.
The whisky was made by MacKinlay & Co and drinks group Whyte & Mackay has asked for a sample to carry out tests with a view to possibly re-launching the defunct brand.
Cool. Hope they succeed.
Tongue in cheek prediction.
Al Gore will purchase the whiskey, and claim its recovery from a glacier is proof positive of global warming.
Al will tell us that up north scotch on the rocks is now served on real rocks.
Hope it’s a good single malt.
Steve
On the rocks…get thee behind me Satan!! [j/k–I prefer mine with just a splash of water]
LOL, drink mine straight.
Steve