Latest Shackleton South Pole Whisky pic is biggest tease yet

Just look at that! Hello beautiful!

Of course we’ll have to wait and see what the implications are for the bottle being on the side like that – has the whisky reached the cork and perhaps partially eroded it? Has the ice and water got inside the whisky?

Such mysteries still to find out!

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This updated/added on the 30th;

The team over at The Great Whisky Crate Thaw blog sent me over some more pics (some good videos on their site too) of the box taken from the Shackleton site with whisky in it and the crate is starting to give off clues about what whisky is inside…

But it’s this picture that really captured my attention. It was posted it yesterday but it wasn’t until afterwards I was able to take a good look at it:

Let’s close up and look at the top of the bottle:

That’s a seal covering that goes round the cork and top of the bottle. The red marking is a red wax seal that was popular in the day as an eye-catching tactic (even back then marketing types were interfering with the whisky!)

Now the bottle is on the side so there’s a chance that the whisky may have eroded the cork but the seal covering may have prevented leakage. Though I’ll add that the seals are rarely water or airtight. The ones in the old bottles in my tasting suite are very loose.

Now after seeing this picture I went and had a look around the office and my tasting suite. Now I only had a camera phone to hand but based on a few bottles (and I’ll share some pictures in a moment) I think we’re looking at a single malt – not a blend – aged 12 years old.

Here’s some pictures from one of the bottles I was looking at to show the similarities (there were others, but I was time pushed). Now the fact that the seal is intact is promising, so when the bottle is finally removed, it bodes well for the whisky inside. And for those wondering, yes, each bottle was packed in straw and the dark matter around them is caused by volcanic ash (or so I was told).

Of course I could be completely wrong as I’m going on looks of the top of a bottle and what I know from historical information, so we’ll have to stay tuned to find out…