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

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Sherry casks (butts) can be very big, so the initial volume could have been much greater than those other casks, if they were barrels or hogsheads...
 
 Dave 
 
 
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From: petelamb1970 at AOL.COM
To: DJRussoBik at AOL.COM
Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: New 1967 Highland Park - Sounds Expensive...and a little magical?


I agree that spltting casks is no new thing I know of many casks that have been split - I also believe that casks actually evaporate faster the less that is in them so this could be an interesting experiment - my main query is how are they going to get 400 bottles from one cask - take the averages i got from other people bottlings highest one is 220 bottles or something along those lines to get 400 bottles by dilution the ABV would have to be close to 80% to get enough bottles at 40% ABV.  Please correct me if my maths is wrong.
 
Regards
 
Mark 
 
 
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From: maltmaniacsdavin at GMAIL.COM
To: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Sent: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12.04AM
Subject: Re: New 1967 Highland Park - Sounds Expensive...and a little magical?


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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