April 2025 Auction

Daftmill 2010 Winter Batch Release 2024

Daftmill is a farm distillery, owned and run by the Cuthbert family, who grow all of the barley used in their whisky on-site. The distillery is only operational during the farm's quiet periods in mid-summer and mid-winter, sometimes producing as few as 100 casks per year. The distillery was granted its license in 2005, but not in a hurry to rush out their product, it was 2018 before their inaugural release. This patience and dedication to their craft has won the distillery an army of passionate fans, among collectors and connoisseurs alike.

Released in 2024, this Daftmill was matured in 27 first-fill bourbon barrels filled in December of 2011. 

One of 7.500 bottles.

Dewar's Signature

This is the premium offering from John Dewar's and Sons, this deluxe blend has proven to be incredibly popular competing against the likes of Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

John Dewar & Sons were granted their first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1893, and it has been renewed by every monarch since then. The company opened the Aberfeldy distillery in 1898, and it remains the core constituent of its blends. The famous white label Scotch was debuted the following year. The company merged with James Buchanan & Co to form Dewar-Buchanan in 1915, before becoming part of DCL ten years later. It remained part of that empire until the formation of its modern iteration, Diageo, in 1997. The merger of United Distillers and Grand Metropolitan had brought too much of the industry under a sole parent organisation, and to satisfy anti-monopoly rulings, the Dewar's brands and distilleries were sold to Bacardi in 1998, who have breathed a new lease of life into many of them since.

Deanston 2002 Whisky Fellas 19 Year Old / Episode 3

Deanston distillery opened in 1965, and its first single malt was called Old Bannockburn, first bottled in 1971. Invergordon Distillers procured the distillery two years later, and introduced the first Deanston-named single malt in 1974. Sadly, a lack of interest in it saw the distillery mothballed in 1982, and it was not until 1990 when it was bought by Burn Stewart that it was revived and began to flourish. Now part of the Distell group, Deanston has become a global single malt brand.

This Deanston was distilled in 2002 and matured in a single Fino sherry cask for 19 years. It was bottled by The Whisky Fellas in 2022, as the third episode of their comic-style story, titled The Climb.

One of only 72 bottles.

Daftmill 2010 Summer Batch Release 2021

Daftmill is a farm distillery, owned and run by the Cuthbert family, who grow all of the barley used in their whisky on-site. The distillery is only operational during the farm's quiet periods in mid-summer and mid-winter, sometimes producing as few as 100 casks per year. The distillery was granted its license in 2005, but not in a hurry to rush out their product, it was 2018 before their inaugural release. This patience and dedication to their craft has won the distillery an army of passionate fans, among collectors and connoisseurs alike.

This is their Summer 2010 Batch release, which was the last time the barley variety Optic was used for distillation. It was matured in twenty five first-fill Bourbon barrels from Clermont Springs distillery in Kentucky and bottled in 2021.

One of 6,250 bottles.

Daftmill 2011 Summer Batch Release 2023

Daftmill is a farm distillery, owned and run by the Cuthbert family, who grow all of the barley used in their whisky on-site. The distillery is only operational during the farm's quiet periods in mid-summer and mid-winter, sometimes producing as few as 100 casks per year. The distillery was granted its license in 2005, but not in a hurry to rush out their product, it was 2018 before their inaugural release. This patience and dedication to their craft has won the distillery an army of passionate fans, among collectors and connoisseurs alike.

Released in 2023, this Daftmill was distilled in June through August of 2011 and matured in 27 first-fill bourbon barrels from Clermont Springs distillery in Kentucky. 

One of 6,550 bottles.

Daftmill 2010 Summer Batch Release 2021

Daftmill is a farm distillery, owned and run by the Cuthbert family, who grow all of the barley used in their whisky on-site. The distillery is only operational during the farm's quiet periods in mid-summer and mid-winter, sometimes producing as few as 100 casks per year. The distillery was granted its license in 2005, but not in a hurry to rush out their product, it was 2018 before their inaugural release. This patience and dedication to their craft has won the distillery an army of passionate fans, among collectors and connoisseurs alike.

This is their Summer 2010 Batch release, which was the last time the barley variety Optic was used for distillation. It was matured in twenty five first-fill Bourbon barrels from Clermont Springs distillery in Kentucky and bottled in 2021.

One of 6,250 bottles.

Dailuaine 2011 The Whisky Jury 12 Year Old

Dailuaine was at a time in the 19th century, Speyside's largest distillery, and it was home to Scotland's first pagoda roofed kiln. That distillery perished in a fire however, in 1917. The newly rebuilt distillery was acquired by DCL (now Diageo) who used its \"meaty\" spirit as a filler for their many blends. As with most of the single malt operations in the Diageo portfolio, the Flora & Fauna release was Dailuaine's first ever distillery bottling. Its single malt had been available in the form of independent releases like this in the preceding years though.

This whisky was distilled in November 2011 and bottled in May 2024.It was matured in first fill Bourbon cask.

One of 204 bottles.

Dewar's 20 Year Old Double Double Aged 50cl

John Dewar & Sons were granted their first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1893, and it has been renewed by every monarch since then. The company opened the Aberfeldy distillery in 1898, and it remains the core constituent of its blends. The famous white label Scotch was debuted the following year. The company merged with James Buchanan & Co to form Dewar-Buchanan in 1915, before becoming part of DCL ten years later. It remained part of that empire until the formation of its modern iteration, Diageo, in 1997. The merger of United Distillers and Grand Metropolitan had brought too much of the industry under a sole parent organisation, and to satisfy anti-monopoly rulings, the Dewar's brands and distilleries were sold to Bacardi in 1998, who have breathed a new lease of life into many of them since.

This mature blended whisky from Dewar's has been \"double double aged for ultimate smoothness.\" The small batch release sees a four stage ageing process. First, single malts are individually matured, then vatted together and re-racked. The same is done for the single grains, before both the blended malt and blended grain casks are themselves vatted together. This cask is then re-racked into sherry casks to finish.

This 20 year old expression was made exclusive to the travel retail market.

Deanston 2006 Fino Cask Finish 12 Year Old

Deanston distillery opened in 1965, and its first single malt was called Old Bannockburn, first bottled in 1971. Invergordon Distillers procured the distillery two years later, and introduced the first Deanston-named single malt in 1974. Sadly, a lack of interest in it saw the distillery mothballed in 1982, and it was not until 1990 when it was bought by Burn Stewart that it was revived and began to flourish. Now part of the Distell group, Deanston has become a global single malt brand.

This Deanston was distilled in 2006 and matured for 12 years, including a finishing period in Fino sherry casks.

Dornoch 5 Year Old Sutherland / WhiskyFun 20th Anniversary

The Thompson Brothers began their whisky bottling enterprise in 2013, establishing the Black Isle Whisky Company in their native Dornoch. The brothers, Simon and Philip, renamed the operation as the Dornoch Distilling Company in 2015, opening the Dornoch distillery the following year. Located in a tiny 19th century fire station in the grounds of Dornoch Castle, they began distilling in July 2017. They only use organic strains of heritage barley such as Plumage Archer and Maris Otter and at 216 hours, the distillery's fermentation process may be the longest in Scotland. Such long fermentation will result in a spirit with a fruity and complex flavour profile. The company has the capability to produce 12,000 litres of spirit annually and their very first single malt was released in November 2020.

This whisky was bottled in 2022. 

One of 590 bottles.

Dalmore 12 Year Old 1 Litre

Dalmore is undoubtedly the prize single malt in the Whyte & Mackay portfolio. This was not always the case though. The blenders purchased it from the Mackenzie family in 1960, having been long-standing customers. Due to the long-running importance of it to their blends, their distillery bottlings of its single malt were limited to a 12 year old expression. Nowadays however, it is positioned as a luxury brand, rubbing shoulder with the likes of Macallan, and is globally recognised.

The long-serving Dalmore 12 year old was the sole constituent of the distillery's core range until 2002 when the Cigar Malt and 21 year old were added.

Dalmore Luceo 

Dalmore is undoubtedly the prize single malt in the Whyte & Mackay portfolio. This was not always the case though. The blenders purchased it from the Mackenzie family in 1960, having been long-standing customers. Due to the long-running importance of it to their blends, their distillery bottlings of its single malt were limited to a 12 year old expression. Nowadays however, it is positioned as a luxury brand, rubbing shoulder with the likes of Macallan, and is globally recognised. Independent releases like this are hard to come by.

The Luceo is one of three recent travel retail releases from Dalmore, all of which have been finished in a different type of sherry cask.

The Luceo was finished in Apostoles sherry casks.

Dalmore 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Select

Dalmore is undoubtedly the prize single malt in the Whyte & Mackay portfolio. This was not always the case though. The blenders purchased it from the Mackenzie family in 1960, having been long-standing customers. Due to the long-running importance of it to their blends, their distillery bottlings of its single malt were limited to a 12 year old expression. Nowadays however, it is positioned as a luxury brand, rubbing shoulder with the likes of Macallan, and is globally recognised.

The long-serving Dalmore 12 year old was the sole constituent of the distillery's core range until 2002 when when the Cigar Malt and 21 year old were added.

The Sherry Cask Select was launched in late 2020 and features three different styles of Oloroso casks in the maturation, alongside spirit matured in Pedro Ximenezx casks.

Dalmore 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Select

Dalmore is undoubtedly the prize single malt in the Whyte & Mackay portfolio. This was not always the case though. The blenders purchased it from the Mackenzie family in 1960, having been long-standing customers. Due to the long-running importance of it to their blends, their distillery bottlings of its single malt were limited to a 12 year old expression. Nowadays however, it is positioned as a luxury brand, rubbing shoulder with the likes of Macallan, and is globally recognised.

The long-serving Dalmore 12 year old was the sole constituent of the distillery's core range until 2002 when when the Cigar Malt and 21 year old were added.

The Sherry Cask Select was launched in late 2020 and features three different styles of Oloroso casks in the maturation, alongside spirit matured in Pedro Ximenezx casks.

Dufftown 8 Year Old 1980s

Dufftown was built in 1896, becoming part of the Arthur Bell & Sons portfolio in 1933. As with Blair Athol, Dufftown was regularly bottled as a single malt, despite its importance to the Bell's blends. When the company was bought by Guinness in 1985, these bottlings stopped, but a Dufftown distillery bottling returned in 1991 as part of United Distillers’ Flora & Fauna series, later becoming part of The Singleton stable. Prior to the construction of Roseisle, Dufftown was Diageo's largest distillery.

This is an 8 year old from the end of the Arthur Bell & Sons era.

Dalwhinnie 1996 Distillers Edition D.ST.312

Dalwhinnie was one of the six original Classic Malts when they were selected by DCL (now Diageo) back in 1988, and it was tipped to become the favourite among consumers on account of its flawless floral flavours and elegant character. Although eventually pipped at the post by the smoky dark horse that was the Lagavulin 16 year old, it remains a well-loved single malt. The distillery is both the highest and coldest in Scotland, contributing to its unique flavour through the rapid condensing that occurs in its worm tubs.  

Launched in 1997, the Distillers Edition range are cask finished variations on the Classic Malts. This is the second release of this double matured series from Dalwhinnie, and was finished in Oloroso cask wood.

Dewars White Label 1970s

John Dewar & Sons were granted their first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1893, and it has been renewed by every monarch since then. The company opened the Aberfeldy distillery in 1898, and it remains the core constituent of its blends. The famous white label Scotch was debuted the following year. The company merged with James Buchanan & Co to form Dewar-Buchanan in 1915, before becoming part of DCL ten years later. It remained part of that empire until the formation of its modern iteration, Diageo, in 1997. The merger of United Distillers and Grand Metropolitan had brought too much of the industry under a sole parent organisation, and to satisfy anti-monopoly rulings, the Dewar's brands and distilleries were sold to Bacardi in 1998, who have breathed a new lease of life into many of them since.

A classic blend that is still popular worldwide today, this is a bottle from the 1970s.

Dalwhinnie Winter's Frost Game of Thrones / House Stark

Dalwhinnie was one of the six original Classic Malts when they were selected by United Distillers (now Diageo) back in 1988, and it was tipped to become the favourite among consumers on account of its flawless floral flavours and elegant character. Although eventually pipped at the post by the smoky dark horse that was the Lagavulin 16 year old, it remains a well-loved single malt. The distillery is both the highest and coldest in Scotland, contributing to its unique flavour through the rapid condensing that occurs in its worm tubs.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO saw their Classic Malts range reimagined as being somehow related to the landed houses of the Game of Thrones television series.

Dalmore 2009 Spirits Shop' Selection

Dalmore is undoubtedly the prize single malt in the Whyte & Mackay portfolio. This was not always the case though. The blenders purchased it from the Mackenzie family in 1960, having been long-standing customers. Due to the long-running importance of it to their blends, their distillery bottlings of its single malt were limited to a 12 year old expression. Nowadays however, it is positioned as a luxury brand, rubbing shoulder with the likes of Macallan, and is globally recognised. Independent releases like this are hard to come by.

This Dalmore was distilled in 2009 and matured in single hogshead #800158. It was bottled by Spirits Shop' Selection in 2019.

The Spirits Shop’ Selection was founded in Taiwan in 2014 by Dong Fang Ming. His goal was to create an “East-West cultural exchange,” importing the finest Scotch whiskies and rum, and bottling them with elegant Asian influenced label designs. The company worked in collaboration with Sansibar Whisky in Germany for their earliest releases, before striking out as their own standalone brand.

One of 288 bottles

Dunville's VR 12 Year Old PX Cask

An Irish whiskey, bottled at Echlinville distillery on Northern Ireland's east coast.

Dunville's is a revival of an old whiskey brand, and reproduces the historic label style here too.

This 12 year old was finished in a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask.

Deanston 12 Year Old 1990s

Deanston distillery opened in 1965, and its first single malt was called Old Bannockburn, first bottled in 1971. Invergordon Distillers procured the distillery two years later, and introduced the first Deanston-named single malt in 1974. Sadly, a lack of interest in it saw the distillery mothballed in 1982, and it was not until 1990 when it was bought by Burn Stewart that it was revived and began to flourish. Now part of the Distell group, Deanston has become a global single malt brand.

This version of the 12 year old is the earliest Burn Stewart-era core range bottling, produced in the 1990s.

Dewar's White Label Scotch Whisky Quart 1970s / US Import

John Dewar & Sons were granted their first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1893, and it has been renewed by every monarch since then. The company opened the Aberfeldy distillery in 1898, and it remains the core constituent of its blends. The famous white label Scotch was debuted the following year. The company merged with James Buchanan & Co to form Dewar-Buchanan in 1915, before becoming part of DCL ten years later. It remained part of that empire until the formation of its modern iteration, Diageo, in 1997. The merger of United Distillers and Grand Metropolitan had brought too much of the industry under a sole parent organisation, and to satisfy anti-monopoly rulings, the Dewar's brands and distilleries were sold to Bacardi in 1998, who have breathed a new lease of life into many of them since.

Dunville's VR 12 Year Old PX Cask

An Irish whiskey, bottled at Echlinville distillery on Northern Ireland's east coast.

Dunville's is a revival of an old whiskey brand, and reproduces the historic label style here too.

This 12 year old was finished in a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask.

Dartigalongue 1993 Bas Armagnac

Dartigalongue is the oldest producer in the Armagnac region, starting in 1838. Dartigalongue is in the west of the Bas Armagnac, where the soil is sandier than those to the east, and vines grown in sandy soils produce grapes with higher acidity which distils into a very round spirit with plenty of elegance.

This 1993 vintage has been matured in Gascon oak barrels and it was bottled in November 2020..

Dewar's 21 Year Old Double Double Aged 37.5cl / US Import

John Dewar & Sons were granted their first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1893, and it has been renewed by every monarch since then. The company opened the Aberfeldy distillery in 1898, and it remains the core constituent of its blends. The famous white label Scotch was debuted the following year. The company merged with James Buchanan & Co to form Dewar-Buchanan in 1915, before becoming part of DCL ten years later. It remained part of that empire until the formation of its modern iteration, Diageo, in 1997. The merger of United Distillers and Grand Metropolitan had brought too much of the industry under a sole parent organisation, and to satisfy anti-monopoly rulings, the Dewar's brands and distilleries were sold to Bacardi in 1998, who have breathed a new lease of life into many of them since.

This is a mature blended Scotch from Dewar's; \"double double aged for ultimate smoothness.\" This small batch release sees a four stage ageing process. First, single malts are barrel aged before being blended and re-casked. The same is done for the single grains before both the blended malt and blended grain casks are vatted together. This blend is then re-racked intoOloroso sherry casks to finish.

Dailuaine 16 Year Old Flora and Fauna

Following on from the successful introduction of the Classic Malts range in 1988 (at the time only six expressions), United Distillers sought to build on this by releasing a further 22 single malts in 1991. These became affectionately known as the Flora & Fauna series, a term coined by whisky writer, Michael Jackson, in reference to their labels. The range showcased the lesser-seen distilleries from the company’s extensive portfolio at the time, with the intent of using collective branding to help them raise each other’s profiles. Despite four further additions in 2001, only a handful of these are still permanent distillery bottlings, making it a highly collectible series.

Dailuaine was at a time, in the 19th century, Speyside's largest distillery, and it was home to Scotland's first pagoda roofed kiln. That distillery perished in a fire however, in 1917. The newly rebuilt distillery was acquired by DCL (now Diageo) who used its \"meaty\" spirit as a filler for one of their many blends. As with many Diageo of the single malt operations in the Diageo portfolio, the Flora & Fauna release was Dailuaine's first ever distillery bottling. Despite being a fan favourite, this is still the only permanent official bottling available from the distillery.

Dailuaine 2011 Auld Goonsy 13 Year Old

Dailuaine was at a time in the 19th century, Speyside's largest distillery, and it was home to Scotland's first pagoda roofed kiln. That distillery perished in a fire however, in 1917. The newly rebuilt distillery was acquired by DCL (now Diageo) who used its \"meaty\" spirit as a filler for their many blends. As with most of the single malt operations in the Diageo portfolio, the Flora & Fauna release was Dailuaine's first ever distillery bottling. Its single malt had been available in the form of independent releases like this in the preceding years though.

This Dailuaine was distilled in March 2011 and matured for 13 years, initially in an American oak hogshead, then in single first-fill Port cask #303863 for a further 12 months. It was bottled by Global Whisky in November 2024 under their Auld Goonsy label.

One of 211 bottles.

Deanston 2009 The Golden Cask 12 Year Old #CM279

Deanston distillery opened in 1965, and its first single malt was called Old Bannockburn, first bottled in 1971. Invergordon Distillers procured the distillery two years later, and introduced the first Deanston-named single malt in 1974. Sadly, a lack of interest in it saw the distillery mothballed in 1982, and it was not until 1990 when it was bought by Burn Stewart that it was revived and began to flourish. Now part of the Distell group, Deanston has become a global single malt brand.

This Deanston was distilled in March 2009 and matured for 12 years in Bourbon cask #CM279. It was bottled by House of MacDuff in July 2021 under their Golden Cask label.

One of only 284 bottles.

Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old

Dalwhinnie was one of the six original Classic Malts when they were selected by United Distillers (now Diageo) back in 1988, and it was tipped to become the favourite among consumers on account of its flawless floral flavours and elegant character. Although eventually pipped at the post by the smoky dark horse that was the Lagavulin 16 year old, it remains a well-loved single malt. The distillery is both the highest and coldest in Scotland, contributing to its unique flavour through the rapid condensing that occurs in its worm tubs.

This is the modern iteration of the distillery's classic 15 year old.

Dailuaine 2011 Auld Goonsy 13 Year Old

Dailuaine was at a time in the 19th century, Speyside's largest distillery, and it was home to Scotland's first pagoda roofed kiln. That distillery perished in a fire however, in 1917. The newly rebuilt distillery was acquired by DCL (now Diageo) who used its \"meaty\" spirit as a filler for their many blends. As with most of the single malt operations in the Diageo portfolio, the Flora & Fauna release was Dailuaine's first ever distillery bottling. Its single malt had been available in the form of independent releases like this in the preceding years though.

This Dailuaine was distilled in March 2011 and matured for 13 years, initially in an American oak hogshead, then in single first-fill Port cask #303863 for a further 12 months. It was bottled by Global Whisky in November 2024 under their Auld Goonsy label.

One of 211 bottles.

Dalmunach 2015 Carn Mor 8 Year Old

One of Scotland's most modern distilleries, Dalmunach was constructed by Chivas Brothers in 2014. It stands on the site of the former Imperial distillery in Speyside (dismatled the year prior), and is named after a water pool in the local area. Overseen by Douglas Cruickshank, who began his career at Imperial, the design of Dalmunach retains several features of its predecessor, including recycling the red brick from the original mill for its entranceway, and wood from the washbacks to clad the walls of the tun room. The first Dalmunach single malt was bottled by Chivas Brothers as part of its Reserve Collection in 2019.

This Dalmunach was distilled 2015 and matured in oloroso butts for 8 years. It was bottled by Morrison Scotch Whisky Distillers in 2024, under their Càrn Mòr label.

This is a Strictly Limited bottling, a small batch and single cask sub-category of Morrison Scotch Whisky Distillers’ Carn Mor label. Formerly Morrison & Mackay, they are a Perth-based company producing a number of whisky liqueurs as well as independent single malts and blends, including the popular recently revived Old Perth. In 2017 the firm completed the construction of the Aberargie distillery in the town of the same name.

One of 1,756 bottles.

Deanston 8 Year Old Dràm Mòr

Deanston distillery opened in 1965, and its first single malt was called Old Bannockburn, first bottled in 1971. Invergordon Distillers procured the distillery two years later, and introduced the first Deanston-named single malt in 1974. Sadly, a lack of interest in it saw the distillery mothballed in 1982, and it was not until 1990 when it was bought by Burn Stewart that it was revived and began to flourish. Now part of the Distell group, Deanston has become a global single malt brand.

This Deanston was matured for 8 years, including a finish in refill Palo Cortado cask.

One of only 249 bottles.