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Title: Last bottle of world's oldest single malt whisky leaves Scotland
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Published: Feb 26, 2005
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Post Date: 2005-02-26 07:27:52 by 2Trievers
Keywords: Scotland, worlds, bottle
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LONDON (AFP) - The last remaining bottle of the world's oldest single malt whisky left its distillery in Scotland bound for Hong Kong, where it will be the star attraction at an airport shop. The bottle of Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937, left to mature in a cask for 64 years before being bottled, is heading for Hong Kong's Chep Lap Kok Airport, where it will be available for a well-heeled buyer, but only at a steep cost. Previous bottles sold direct by the family-owned Glenfiddich Distillery fetched 10,000 pounds (14,500 euros, 19,000 dollars) each, but the price levied by the airport is expected to be higher still. "There are a lot of mixed emotions here," said the distillery's "malt master" David Stewart of the bottle, claimed as the oldest single malt whisky in the world. "On the one hand, we're extremely proud of having produced a whisky of such a fantastic quality that's stood the test of time and on the other, there's a tinge of sadness at saying goodbye." Sky Connection, which operates shops at Hong Kong airport, has bought the final six bottles of the 1937 malt, the last of which departed the distillery on Friday. As they are so rare, the bottles are being sent in two batches. Just 61 bottles, described as having "chocolate and treacle" flavours, were produced from the single cask and first released in 2001.
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HISTORY OF WHISKY AND OF DISTILLATION (I) 1st part :The origins In his "Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland" published in 1577, Raphael Holinshed describes as follows the incomparable virtues of Uisge Beatha : "Being moderately taken, 2nd part : Smugglers and Excisemen (Or, how our celtic ancestors avoided the F!%+*&$ taxman). "From now on and inescapably, production of illicit whisky will strongly proliferate, notably in the Highlands. Having at its disposal easily transportable equipment, the smuggler hides in the innumerable glens. The most valuable part of its rustic still is the copper coil. Immersed in a cask and cooled by the river's water, it enables the condensation of spirit vapours in a distilled liquor preciously collected. The authoritative bodies did have the brilliant idea of offering a 5 Pounds bonus to anyone who would denounce the existence of an illicit distillery. Therefore, when his coiled was worn out the smuggler only had to get the governing authorities visiting the place of the so-called illicit still, where he had previously judiciously hidden his old coil. The bonus money so collected would allow him to buy a brand new coil without delay !" *************** 'An Unco Common Mercat' by George Hardie ***** Celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns concluded a long poem written in 1786 and addressed to the House of Commons, in which he pleaded in favour of less restricting regulations for whisky, by : "Freedom and whisky gang together ! *****
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it slows the age,
it cuts phlegm,
it lightens the mind,
it quickens the spirit,
it cures the dropsy,
it heals the strangulation,
it pounces the stone,
its repels gravel,
it pulls away ventositie,
it keeps and preserves the head from whirling,
the eyes from dazzling,
the tongue from lisping,
the mouth from snuffling,
the teeth from chattering,
the throat from rattling,
the weasan from stiffing,
the stomach from womblying,
the heart from swelling,
the belly from wincing,
the guts from rumbling,
the hands from shivering,
the sinews from shrinking,
the veins from crumpling,
the bones from aching,
the marrow from soaking,
and truly it is a sovereign liquor
if it be orderly taken."
Take off your dram !"
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