February 2014 Auction

Port Ellen 1979 22 Year Old 1st Release

The first of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 22 years later in 2001, bottled at cask strength and limited to 6,000 bottles, this is bottle 0443.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel of the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer

Port Ellen 1978 25 Year Old 4th Release

The fourth in the wildly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1978 and bottled 25 years later in 2004, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5,100 bottles, this is bottle 0464.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel of the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Please note  that there are some very feint marks on the box.

Highland Park Magnus Collection

A collection of three very stunning bottles designed by Stoelze Flaconnage to replicate bottlings from 150 years ago.

Highland Park Earl Magnus 15 Year Old 1st Edition

Only 5.976 bottles we're released of the Highland Park Earl Magnus, bottled at 15 years old this bottle commemorates Earl Magnus.  

Earl Magnus the most famous of the Viking Earls of Orkney, lived in the 1100s, his cousin Haakon was very jealous of Magnus and the story goes that he had him murdered.  As time went on there are rumours that miraculous healing has said to be experienced around the Earl's tomb. The Cathedral of Kirkwall was built in memory of Earl magnus.  The packaging of these whiskies features an image of the saint taken from the stained glass window in the Cathedral.

Earl Magnus is a 15 year old Highland Park with the addition of some casks from the early 1990s, bottled at 52.6%.

Highland Park Saint Magnus 12 Year Old 2nd Edition

This bottling celebrates Saint Magnus, 20 years after the murder of the Earl by his treacherous cousin Earl Haakon the Earl was canonized. This limited edition 12 year old is drawn from casks laid down in 1998 and earlier years. Only 11,994 bottles are available at 55.0%.

Highland Park Earl Haakon 18 Year Old 3rd Edition

The final release in the Magnus series, the Earl Haakon is named after the Earl Magnus cousion who orchestrated the murder Earl Magnus.

Bottled slightly older as a 18 year old this whisky was bottled at 54.9%

Hazelwood 90th Birthday Mrs J Roberts 

Bottled in August 1991 to mark the 90th Birthday of Mrs J Robert's, the last surviving grand child of the founder of Glenfiddich and Balvenie distillerys, William Grant.

Mrs J Robert's died aged 110 in 2012 and a centennial bottling of this was released

To mark her 90th birthday, the company's Master Blender selected 90 casks to make a blend to celebrate that occasion and bottled at 90 proof.

Please note this is a 75cl bottle.

Slight marks on the outside, please see photo.  Additionally the front label is slightly loose.

Port Ellen 1979 Douglas Laing 25 Year Old

A lovely Old Malt Cask release from Douglas Laing, this Port Ellen was distilled in December 1979 before being bottled 25 years later in July 2005.

Finished for 6 months in sherry wood, this single cask only produced 425 bottles.

Port Ellen 1980 21 Year old Silver Seal

A slightly younger Port Ellen than you normally see from the long closed Islay legend. This was bottled for the Italian market by the Glasgow based company. Bottle 118 of 240

Port Charlotte PC5

Port Charlotte is a heavily peated spirit produced by Bruichladdich in rememberance and hope for a long list distillery at Port Charlotte on Islay, which closed in 1929. 

Matured in both bourbon and sherry cask this 5 year old spirit was limited to 6,038 bottles.

Port Ellen 1982 Douglas Laing 25 Year Old

A sherry cask matured Port Ellen as part of Douglas Laing's Provenance range.

Bottled in the summer of 2008 and matured for 25 years since the winter of 1982, independant bottlings are quickly becoming the only affordable way to reach Port Ellen's.

Hazelburn 8 Year Old First Edition Collection

This lot consists of the complete set of the first edition Hazelburn 8 year olds, depicting three different labels as shown above.

Hazelburn 8 Year Old First Edition 'The Stills'

Hazelburn 8 Year Old First Edition 'The Maltings'

Hazelburn 8 Year Old First Edition 'The Casks'

Please note the boxes are fragile and one of the boxes has a slightly torn lid.

Paul John Debut Cask P1-161

The first release from the new Indian producer Paul John, based in Goa.

Matured in a single bourbon cask P1-161.

Port Charlotte PC10

Port Charlotte is a heavily peated spirit produced by Bruichladdich in rememberance and hope for a long list distillery at Port Charlotte on Islay, which closed in 1929. 

The coming of age version of Port Charlotte, PC10.  The Trona Linntean - in English means 'Through the Generation' to celebrate the young craftsmen coming through the distillery.

Bottle number 554 of 6,000.

Edradour 10 Year Old 75cl and Poster

Bottled with a lovely poster this Edradour 10 year old comes from the late 1980s or early 1990s.

75cl

Hazelwood Janet Sheed Roberts 110th Birthday

The forth release to commemorate the 110th birthday of William Grant's Granddaughter; Janet Sheed Roberts.

Only 1600 bottles produced and given to members of staff in William Grant's.