Edinburgh, UK (PRWEB) November 8, 2008 Today, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, as part of their 25th anniversary, issues its biggest single release of new single cask single malt whisky bottlings at any one time. Never in 25 years of the Society’s history have 43 casks from 41 different distilleries been bottled ahead of …
Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore
Product DescriptionIn 1941 an 8,000-ton cargo ship ran aground in the Sound of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. In the difficult war years any gift from the sea was welcome, and the SS Politician had among her cargo a quarter of a million bottles of whisky. The events that followed inspired Compton Mackenzie’s novel Whisky …