Fresh from the South Pole, a bottle of Rare Old Scotch by McKinlay & Co, is to be cut from one of two cases buried in Antarctic ice for over a hundred years, a relic of Shackleton’s doomed expedition.

Once freed from the ice by A New Zealand expedition at the Pole, the bottle is to be brought back to Scotland where, its whisky  ’gene pool’ will be identified and replicated in Whyte & Mackay’s blending room.

McKinlay  & Co no longer exist so Richard Paterson, Whyte & MacKay’s master blender is to do the honour of recreating this rare Scotch. If he is successful, it may see the market again. Any good ideas for what they might christen it?