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

[Bev D. Blackwood II]

I've got the 1967 botled in1991... (18 YO, if my math is correct) at  
about 3/4 bottle... Always a favorite of mine.  Won't be trying to  
add these two, I expect.

On Nov 15, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Pete Lamb 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!
>
> Pete
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