DHL ships 120-year-old whisky

Oceania

Monday, December 10, 2012

In 1909, explorer Ernest Shackleton left behind bottles of 1896 Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky during an expedition in Antarctica. After being found in 2010, the whisky was flown to New Zealand for thawing and then three bottles were shipped to Scotland, where distillery Whyte & Mackay analyzed the liquor for mass production. Recently, DHL Global Forwarding undertook a complex logistics operation, involving both air and road transportation, to bring the bottles from...

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