For those with a love for Scotch!

[Bonny Pearl]

Drool on!    And maybe weep a wee bit...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38686720/ns/technology_and_science-science/

[crashbot]

Wow, to get ahold of a bottle of that!

[Bob of the Lake]

100 years under the floorboards--now that's a stash!

[LadyStitch]

Our friends in NZ said that it is a big deal over there.  They recently used a long needle to extract some of the Scotch through the cork and it was sent to the original distillery.   Over time the recipe for this scotch was lost.  They are hopeing science can help them discover the recipe.  Of course they have had to keep it under lock and key.  Several rich scotch fanatics want a taste. Not going to happen because soon as they have the recipe it is going back to the location for historical preservation.

[RenStarr]

Cool story.  Too bad no one will be allowed to take a sip.  They'll duplicate the reciepe, but 120 years of aging is really hard to duplicate.  

Here's a nice replacement though:  http://www.drambuie.com/

[Rowan MacD]

For a moment I thought this was another 'Happiness is...'  thread 

  Anybody else think it's odd that they are returning the bottles to the original site and not locking this up like the liquid gold it is?   I will not be at all surprised when a few bottles 'mysteriously' come up missing.  The rich(est) connoisseurs out there will have their taste; money talks. 
  Maybe I'm too cynical..*sigh*
  From what I understand it's not just one bottle, there are eleven.  I'm sure the distillery would pay a nice fee for a bottle and not just a syringe full.
I would love to see it even behind glass, on my next trip to Scotland.  Hopefully to sample a dram of the reproduction Whyte and Mackay will make.

[LadyStitch]

Kiwi's are VERY PICKY when it comes to keeping something ecological or historically perfect.  If they say it is going into a historical exibit untouched. They mean it.  I could see 1 maybe going to the distillary...maybe, but otherwise I don't see it going anywhere but the museum.

Nice to dream though. 

[BLAKDUKE]

Hopefully to sample a dram of the reproduction Whyte and Mackay will make.

I still have what's left of a 20 year old bottle of this in my bar, God is it smooth.

[Bob of the Lake]

Hopefully to sample a dram of the reproduction Whyte and Mackay will make.

I still have what's left of a 20 year old bottle of this in my bar, God is it smooth.

Where do you live, Blakduke??!!

[BLAKDUKE]

When I am in my bar I live in Scotch-land.

[Welsh Wench]

An interesting side note--

We visited the Jack Daniel's Distillery. At the mellowing vat, they have a guy open the lid and pump it up and down. You can get close and inhale 140 proof whiskey through your nose.
Almost as good as drinking it.

And the barrels they use? They are made by JD and used only once. Then they are shipped.
Where to, you may ask?

They are sold to Scotland and they re-use them for their Scotch.   *

* I wish to add that Jack Daniel's is not scotch but Tennessee whiskey.

[Merlin the Elder]

I'm a card-carrying Tennessee Squire, if you're familiar with those...

Jack Daniel's is big into the "green" thing and they basically waste nothing. I liked the part of the tour when they took us into one of the bonded warehouses. All that JD, and so little time!  I thought I was in heaven!

[Welsh Wench]

Yes, I am familiar with the Tennessee Squier! 

The tour was fantastic and well worth the trip into Lynchburg's.

Especially if you get to eat at Miss Mary Bobo's.