Nov 23, 2011 0
Whyte & Mackay launch Mackinlay’s “Shackleton” whisky in NYC
Categories: Whiskey history
Tags: antarctic heritage, canterbury museum, earnest shackleton, elephant island, highland malt whisky, scotch whisky
103 YEARS IS apparently just the right amount of time to attract an adventurous crowd. That’s how long it took for adventurer Earnest Shackleton‘s whisky stash to travel from Antarctica to the Explorer’s Club in Manhattan. On November 10, an appreciative capacity crowd attended the launch of Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky, a meticulous modern recreation of a Scotch whisky left behind by Shackleton and his team in 1908 and rediscovered, frozen Read the rest of this entry »