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After Shackleton's secret stash of whiskey was discovered in 2007 there has been great care at Whyte & Mackay in attempting to create a reproduction of the adventurous whiskey.
The whiskey was found buried underneath Shackleton's cabin in the antarctic, they were placed there in 1907 by Shackleton and his men.

Escaping from the historical re-enactment area of the drinks cabinet, this alcoholic honey brew is crossing into the mainstream. It sweetens a warming toddy-style mix of calvados and cider at Reverend JW Simpson in Fitzrovia, and – the surest sign that it's becoming cool – an artisan producer has started making it in a London flat. Get yourself a bottle of Gosnell's London Mead for a Christmas tipple with a difference.