Exploding a'bunadh

[corvette-joel]

Based on a couple of the recent threads here on a'bunadh, I knew it was something I just had to try. So I ordered a bottle from one of my favorite online purveyors of fine wine & liquor. UPS delivered it yesterday. We're having plenty of ice, snow, and very cold temps here in mid-Missouri right now, so it got plenty cold during its stay in the big brown truck (as in very cold!). Anyway, I went ahead and cut the seal so I could take a deep sniff even though I knew I would let it warm up to room temp before I sampled it. I recorked it and set the bottle out on my liquor cabinet with the other single malts and went to bed. This morning when I got up I noticed that the bottle was now uncorked and the cork was on the floor in front of the cabinet. At first I thought our two cats had been at the scotch again, but finally I decided that as the bottle warmed up everything expanded and it blew the cork! Now I'm wondering if I hadn't cut the seal, would the whole bottle have exploded. Tonight I poured a couple of fingers over some ice and MY-OH-MY, that is some good stuff. By the way, my bottle is from batch 10.