In January 2010 the Trust's team of conservators excavated five crates from beneath Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1908 base in Antarctica. Three were labelled as containing Mackinlay's whisky and two labelled as containing brandy.
One of the whisky crates was flown back to New Zealand and in collaboration with Canterbury Museum, the crate was thawed and eleven whisky bottles revealed.
In January 2011 three of the bottles were flown to Whyte & Mackay (the owners of the Mackinlay's brand in Scotland) for scientific analysis. Richard Patterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, has now recreated the century-old whisky, marrying and blending a range of malts to get an exact replica of the original enjoyed by Shackleton and his men 100 years ago.
Read the whisky blog or watch a BBC clip about the whisky and the scientific process.
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"I hope I have done our forefathers and Ernest Shackleton proud."
Richard Paterson, Master Blender, Whyte & Mackay.
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