Whisky Galore Calvey Mist

From the Hebridean Liqueurs website:

Whisky Galore – brilliant Ealing comedy of the 50′s 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 and little currency was 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, Calvey Mist, which replicated 1940′s 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.

70cl and bottled at 40% at five years old.

http://www.hebridean-liqueurs.co.uk/blog/whisky-galore-lost-stock-rediscovered/