The Question Of The Hour

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christopher watts has left a new comment on your post "This Morning":

in regards to the whiskey does anyone else think that it's a complete waste to unearth such a treasure to test it and then put it back. What is the point of that?

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Robert the Bruce has left a new comment on your post "The Question Of The Hour":

I makes no sense to put it back other than good press for Whyte and MacKay.

I would not be too excited that it's 100 years old however. The "aging" of this wonderful beverage occurs in the wooden barrels before they are put in bottles. Once in the glass bottle, it does not "age" any more. If nothing else, it's a really old bottle of 15 year old malt.


We are only a week away from Robbie Burns Day! Make sure you have a dram or two on the 25th.

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christopher watts has left a new comment on your post "The Question Of The Hour":

I agree that because of its container it would not have continued to age but that's hardly the point.

When you can get Whiskey in a can ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347824/Scottish-whisky-way-South-Americans-like-.html ) the excitement here is obviously because of its age.

Whiskey made 15 yrs ago will taste nothing like that of 115 years ago. The process has evolved and the ingredients are different.

I agree about the P.R. but the discovery gives Whyte and MacKay, putting it back doesn't make any sense.

This is of course the complete opposite of discovering the corpse of some tyrannical Scottish King and deciding to wear him like a technicolor dream coat while prancing through the interwebs.

IMO Whyte and MacKay should just keep it on their premises in a climate controlled environment for further testing/consumption or for show purposes.

The real Robert the Bruce on the other hand should lie buried in the ground. If nothing else he's just a really old relic of 12th century thinking.

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I think the whiskey should be shared. With limited company. It should be sipped. After the first one that knocks your head back, it should be slowly savoured with appreciative glances exchanged all the while. Talk would not be required. It would be better enjoyed in front of a fire,in a big comfortable chair that wraps around, in a room fill with the smell of wood burning, rain driving against the windows and the fire crackling in the hearth.

It should be treated with all reverence for its antiquity. The lights should be turned down low, a glow from the fire with occasional flames flickering.

A journal should be kept of the occasions. It should always be winter when the skies are grey all day. The place should be near the sea so the howling wind outside makes warmth and comfort and company and whiskey that much more realised.

The whiskey should be brought out when all the stars are aligned. It should not be for a wedding or a birthday or any of those trivial occasions. When there's a death now, would be a good time to remember all the good things in life. After imbibing,there should be no journey home. It should be enjoyed at home. And the only place to go after, a large comfortable bed with a firm but soft mattress. big puffy pillows and a down feather duvet billowing around,like sleeping in a cloud.

Aye, Ye ken, That Arab that owns the distillery and a plane, that flew the Scotch back to a science lab to be tested and back again for heritage-keeping,has no appreciation at all for the finer things in life.