I Am Freak'n Out Here...

[jwise]

So, I just moved. Unfortunately, we didn't have a new place to move to! So, we have our stuff in storage, and we are living with family until the new house is available next month.

I packed up my whisky collection in nice boxes I picked up from the local package store. These boxes are made for packing glass bottles (they have nice, rigid dividers). In addition, I stuffed packing material on top of the bottles to keep them from moving about. What I forgot to do was count the number of boxes I used to pack up my bottles. I kept these boxes in the dining room, segregated from the other boxes full of various household goods. These boxes were NOT going on the moving truck, but instead would be delicately packed in the vehicles making the 200 mile trip (in the air conditioning!)

At one point the boxes got moved around and a couple of them got put up in the back of the moving truck. With the friends and family there helping us, they were accidentally picked up. Luckily I caught it quick enough, and all was made right.

Well, the move went fine, and all the boxes and furniture were packed into a large storage unit. The five boxes carefully packed with my whiskies and other bottles made it safely to the closet of the house in which we are staying. There is only one problem...there should be six!

The sixth box contains my Glenrothes collection. The sixth box is more valuable than the other five put together. The sixth box contains discontinued whiskies that I will never see again. The sixth box is in the storage unit, packed way in the back and unaccessible. The storage unit is not climate controlled, and nothing is protecting my valuable bottles of rare whisky from the sweltering 100* heat. It will be more than a month until I can rescue them.

I am sick...

Please, someone lie to me and tell me that all will be ok, and that the heat will not affect the whisky... Please!? Someone!?

[TBC]

All depends on where they store 'em. Hopefully someplace cool. I'd be going nuts, I'd race over there code-3 on a rescue mission.

[BourbonDrinker]

Why can't you just go get them? Is the moving company storing them somewhere you don't have access?
Just pay 3 college kids $300 to go with you for a couple hours and unload and reload the unit. Otherwise your whisky's done. Just do it, now, like tomorrow.

[Legion]

Mercy, I would freak out, too. I hope you get the Glenrothes back, as well as a good measure of justice, if warranted.

[Son-o'-the-Sod(?)]

Jwise, I'm just wondering whether your Glenrothes bottles are in any kind of tubes or cartons (packaging), i.e. if they are, might that insulate them even a little against the extreme heat in the storage facility? I have several bottles in my place that I tend to get concerned about during the summer, as I live in an apartment that gets quite hot - even though they're in sealed boxes and canisters inside a dark closet which I always keep closed, I have no way of monitoring the temperature in there.

[BourbonDrinker]

Ok, since you haven't posted back that you sucked it up and rescued your poor helpless whisky, I'll give you some hope.
Unlike wine, whisky spirit will be far more heat stable as it has survived the distilling process intact. Could the components from the wood/barrel finishing be less heat stable, sure, but I'm trying to be positive here.
Good luck.

[dalechmd]

Not to be devil's advocate, doesn't whisky contain much higher alcohol percentage than wine which rander it more susceptable to heat than wine? I say, go rescue them over ASAP!