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Whisky Galore Calvay Mist 5 Year Old

Whisky Galore Calvay Mist 5 Year Old
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Lot number: 064-3298

Winning bid: £20

From the Hebridean Liqueurs website:

Whisky Galore – brilliant Ealing comedy of the 50s on the S.S. Politician running aground on the Outer Hebrides with more than 9000 cases of Scotch whisky on board plus thousands of banknotes. By the time the weather had calmed down for the authorities to get there, there were very few bottles and little currency left.

All goes quiet for many years, until a company is set up 20 years ago to excavate the S. S. Politician wreck for more whisky. Money was raised, divers employed, thousands of tons of sand and steel plates moved to discover…..24 bottles!

The whisky was partly used to make a blend called Atlantic Gold. These were sold round the world at the time along with another brand, Calvay Mist, which replicated 1940s whisky. Then the company went bust and the stock disappeared into a warehouse. Luckily, the warehouse owner pointed the goods out to me recently – I was intrigued with the story and as I travel to the Outer Hebrides each year, I was familiar with the story.

I have now purchased some of the stock – the Atlantic Gold has numbered bottles and presentation boxes. There are about 60-70 left out of @ 140 ever bottled. Both the Atlantic Gold and Calvey Mist are packaged in a nineties style card box, typical of the time. The whisky used too is the equivalent taste to the 1940′s to preserve authenticity all round.

Age: 5 years old

40%ABV / 70cl

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