MacCallums

**Lachlan09** · 15th February 10, 04:31 AM

Do they still make MacCallums whisky nowadays ? My dad, who's not much of an imbiber, always used to buy a bottle for visitors and claimed it to be better than a lot of other brands of average blendeds.

BTW any news about MacKinlays ? I believe they found some from an early 1900's wreck at the bottom of the sea and Whyte & MacKay want to reproduce that vintage under their MacKinlay's brand if it has survived the years at the bottom of the briny.

GG · 15th February 10, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by Lachlan09

BTW any news about MacKinlays ? I believe they found some from an early 1900's wreck at the bottom of the sea and Whyte & MacKay want to reproduce that vintage under their MacKinlay's brand if it has survived the years at the bottom of the briny.

I don't know if it was MacKinlay but about 35 years ago I got a bottle of whisky which should have come from a wreck sunken during WWI. It was given as a compensation for some failure maken by one of the advertising agencies we worked together with. It didn't taste good at all.

Greg

PS. We fired the agency.

**Mael Coluim** · 15th February 10, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Lachlan09

Do they still make MacCallums whisky nowadays ? My dad, who's not much of an imbiber, always used to buy a bottle for visitors and claimed it to be better than a lot of other brands of average blendeds.

At the 2008 AGM of the MacCallum Malcolm Clan Society at Estes Park, President Neil McCallum offered a wee dram of McCallums for a toast. He brought it back from Australia on a recent visit. He told us, the whisky was distilled in Scotland and bottled in Australia. It was very popular there as well in the Far East. It's not readily available elsewhere. Check out this link.

BTW, I agree with your Dad.

**Jack Daw** · 18th February 10, 07:55 PM

I don't know. But, if any of you watch NCIS, in one episode in which the characters go to a pub after hours to unwind, David MacCallum's character "Ducky" ordered a "MacCallums" whisky, which was obviously an inside joke. The label looked like a Macallan font.

**wvpiper** · 18th February 10, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Lachlan09

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BTW any news about MacKinlays ? I believe they found some from an early 1900's wreck at the bottom of the sea and Whyte & MacKay want to reproduce that vintage under their MacKinlay's brand if it has survived the years at the bottom of the briny.

If you mean the whiskey found under the ice of Shackleton's shanty, there's a couple threads on it. They just brought up a few cases within the last week or so.