Shackleton's Journey Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt Second Edition

Shackleton's Whisky - Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt

Well, how would you say?... "A blast from the past" I guess! If you haven't heard about this Whisky or the whole story about Shackleton and his Nimrod Expedition in 1909... then I would recommend going back to school or to go back into the closet where you have been the last 5 years! Thing is though, I think when writing a Review on the...

Score 91/100

Shackleton's Whisky - Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt

I heard the story of Shackleton's Whisky and saw a bottle for sale in the newspaper ads for a local bottle shop. My wife and I looked at the bottle and said we gotta try this! Problem is the bottle is going for $200 Aussie. We decide for something this awesome we gotta do it, even if it is $200! We ran out to the bottle shop that day and...

Score 86/100

Shackleton's Whisky - Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt

The off-yellow color is more leathery than golden, as if to reflect a century of entombment in ice amid the tackle and truck of an Arctic expedition. The complaint among the smart drinkers regarding a manipulative tie-in to the Shackleton expedition seems rather hasty to me: in the end, you’ve got to admit, it’s a helluva story, and the sheer...

Score 88/100

Shackleton's Whisky - Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt

The story is pretty widely known by now about Ernest Shackleton and the whisky he took with him all those years ago on his expedition. And if you're reading this review, there is a good chance you know about this bottle and why/how it was recreated. So I won't waste time going into that! Anyway as with previous reviews, I like to drink my whisky...

Score 86/100