New 1967 Highland Park - Sounds Expensive...and a little magical?

[Davin de Kergommeaux]

Hi Pete,

Something puzzles me.  For years people have been talking about malts
changing, and most often deteriorating, once the bottle is opened -
even when kept corked.  Some people will quickly drain the bottle or
decant into a smaller one once the level reaches half because they
believe the malt oxydizes and thus degrades when there is too much air
space in the bottle.  How is it any different to drain half the whisky
out of a cask then put the rest back to age for another six months?
The cask must be much less than half full if it's 38 years old to
start with and then has had 200 bottles worth of whisky removed.

This is not the first time I have heard of a single cask being split
by the way.  I've heard of two different bottling strengths from the
same single cask, and of course others with different custom labels
for parts of the same run.

Davin


On 11/15/06, Pete Lamb <petelamb1970 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  An article from todays Thee Drinks Business Newsletter
>
>  "Something unique for single malt collectors: Highland Park has bottled
> half of a single cask from 1967, with plans to bottle the remainder at the
> end of the year. By early next year, therefore, a 38 and a 39 year old
> bottling of the same single cask will be available. In addition, this is the
> oldest exceptional cask ever bottled by Highland Park. Each bottling
> consists of just 200 bottles."
>
>  So for this I imagine they will be charging a pretty penny, if recent
> official bottlings are of old whisky are anything to go by. So an
> interesting concept bottling the same cask twice so that people have to buy
> both bottle to see if that extra 6 months makes any difference. Will be
> interesting to see how they manage to get 400 bottles from a cask, after all
> those years I imagine the angels would have had more than there fair share.
> Most other bottlings of 1966 (Older than this oldest bottling!) and 1967
> from the likes of Signatory, Duncan Taylor and The Whisky Exchange yielded
> only around 138-227 bottles from the whole casks. Maybe they were wrapped in
> clingfilm!
>
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