Description
In its original guise, SS Politician was a blend created in the 1990s using whisky salvaged from the wreckage of the eponymous ship run aground off Eriskay. A tiny amount of the salvaged whisky was blended into each decanter, the majority of the liquid being malt and grain whiskies with unknown provenance. Sadly the SS Politician blend wasn't popular, and its producer, SS Politician plc, went into... The SS Politician was an 8000-ton cargo ship that sank in 1941 off Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, inspiring the novel and film 'Whisky Galore!' [1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13]. This decanter of whisky was produced as a tribute to this event and contains a small amount of the recovered whisky [2].