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This is a real booze hunt for some very old (and very expensive) scotch. A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey. It has aged quite nicely in fact was lost in the early 1900s.

Booze Hunt - Scotch Lost in Antarctica for 100 years?

According to a report from MSNBC, "The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition."


Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, said the Shackleton expedition's whiskey could still be drinkable and taste exactly as it did 100 years ago, reports AOL News.

Photos, video and more here. "I really hope we can get some back here," he was quoted as telling London's Telegraph newspaper. "It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born." Who wouldn't want a taste?