International Whisky Day Auction

Glenlivet 1973 Berry Brothers and Rudd 39 Year Old 

A single cask Glenlivet from cask #10658, distilled in 1973 and bottled in 2012.

Kindly donated by Berry Brothers and Rudd and The Whisky Lounge

Glen Moray 30 Year Old

This is one of the very limited Glen Moray 30 year old, bottled on 22nd November 2004 and limited to only 6,000 bottles.

Kindly donated by Glen Moray.

Glenfarclas 30 Year Old

A classic rich, full bodied, heavily sherried whisky.  

Kindly donated by Pol Roger/Glenfarclas

Kilchoman Club Small Batch Release 2013 (Signed)

Released exclusively for Kilchoman's 'Club' in November 2013 this small batch release was distilled in October 2008 and bottled on 4th November 2013 and was finished in Sherry casks.

Cask #485-490 and 567-568.

This has been signed by members of the team at Kilchoman, included Anthony Wills and John Maclellan, Stillmen Robyn and Michael and Production Manager Tony.

Kindly donated by Kilchoman distillery.

Michael Jackson Special Blend and Beer Hunter, Whisky Chaser

The Whisky

A unique blend put together by the guys at Whisky Magazine using open bottles from Michael Jackson's private collection.   Only 1000 bottles we're produced with a contribution from each sale being given to Parkinson's research.  

The Book

Beer Hunter, Whisky Chaser was created in 'Honour of Michael Jackson' and again was created with profits being donated to Parkinson's research.

Quite a number of whisky writers contributed to this book and includes: 

F. Paul Pacult, Dave Broom, Ian Buxton, Charles MacLean, Hans Offringa, and John Hansell. Beer writers are Steve Beaumont, Julie Johnson, Roger Protz, , Gavin Smith, Conrad Seidl, and Lucy Saunders. Finally there's a chapter by Carolyn Smagalski, Michael’s partner

Hardback, 176 pages, published by Distilled Discourse.

Laphroaig Cairdeas Port Wood Finish - Feis Ile 2013

Released during the Feis Ile 2013, the latest edition of Laphroaig Cairdeas was matured in bourbon casks for 8 years prior to being finished in port pipes for 14 months.

Let's not forget that Cairdeas is gaelic for 'friendship'

Kindly donated by a customer

Compass Box 'The Numinous Cask' (Signed)

The Numinous Cask was exclusively produced for La Maison du Whisky in France in March 2012. Only 168 bottles produced and signed by Compass Box Whisky Maker John Glaser.

From the back label:
It began as a beautiful vatting of three of our favourite malts, blended after each had reached ten years in their original American white oak (Quercus alba) casks and racked into a bespoke hybrid cask made of both used American white oak and newly coopered and toasted sessile oak (Quercus petrea) from the Vosges forest.

We then left the whisky for a further six years, and it was transformed.

The liquid inside the cask and now inside this bottle has developed almost magical aromas and flavours.  It will remind you of fine, burnished wood.  Sweet treacle.  Vanillin.  Spice cookies while they are being baked.  Butter being gently heated in a pan just before it begins to brown.

In this whisky you will experience the ethereal aromas of malt spirit married with oak.  The aromas you experience when you smell a freshly emptied whisky cask—but in this case, one of the most gorgeous, subtly elegant, awe-inspiring casks you have ever smelled.  It is the Numinous Cask

Please note the box that this comes in has a slight crack in it.

Balblair 1990 (Signed)

Recently released to replace the award-winning 1989 Vintage, this is the 2nd release of the Balblair 1990 and is matured in American oak ex-bourbon casks and Spanish oak ex-sherry butts Balblair Vintage 1990.

Signed by the team at Balblair:

John MacDonald
Norman Laing
Martin Macdonald
Alan More
John Ross
John G. Ross
Allan Ross
Michael Ross
Julie Ross

Kindly donated by Inverhouse Distillers.

Isle of Jura 21 Year Old (Signed)

The older expression of Isle of Jura, matured for 21 years, signed by  Richard 'The Nose' Patterson

Kindly donated by Whyte and Mackay.

Benriach 25 Year Old

Initially released in 2006 the 25 year old Benriach comprises whisky matured in Oloroso sherry casks, bourbon casks and virgin casks.

Kindly donated by The Benriach Distilling Company

Glen Garioch 1993 Master of Malt 20 Year Old

Distilled on 7th April 1993 and bottled in July 2013 from a single Refill Hogshead, this single cask bottle from Master of Malt is very tempting.

Kindly donated by Master of Malt.

Chichibu 2009 'The Floor Malted' - Ichiro's Malt

Ichiro Akuta is the grand-son of the founder of the famous Hanyu distllery.  In 2007, he built a new whisky distillery 100km northwest of Tokyo.  Located near the old distillery of Hanyu the local climate (humid summers and cold winters) provides excellent maturing conditions for whisky and even though it is a young distillery Chichibu continues to release exceptional whiskies.

The Floor Malted Ichiro Malt is a limited release of 8,800 bottles distilled in 2009 from malted barley malted to Ichiro Akuto's specifications he learned himself in a trip to England, bottled 2012.

Bottled number 6,074 of 8,800.

Kindly donated by Number One Drinks Ltd.

Linkwood 2000 Weymss Malts (Vanilla Zest)

Distilled in 2000 and bottled in 2011 this Linkwood came from a single butt, releasing 792 bottles.

Kindly donated by Weymss Malts.

International Whisky Day 2014 Blended Malt  

A special commemorative charity bottle of blended malt Scotch whisky produced in celebration of International Whisky Day 2014.

This bottle is an exciting blend of different single malts from around Scotland bottled in a fully engraved glass decanter with wood-topped cork stopper.

Kindly donated by www.whiskyblender.com

Vat 69 (26 2/3rd fl oz) and Band of Brothers Boxset

We've all seen the award winning HBO series Band of Brothers, Vat 69 is the drink of choice of Captain Lewis Nixon of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.  

This lot comprises you to enjoy this legendary blend, bottled during 1970s alongside the eipc tv series.

Jolly Toper Tastings Voucher for 2 People

Jolly Toper's whisky tastings take place on Thursday nights from 7:30pm until approximately 10pm at Kilderkin, at the foot of the Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile.

We have two tickets kindly donated by Mr Jolly Toper himself, the tickets usually cost  £17/20.  These evenings should be experienced by all!

At least 5 drams, typically cask strength.  An idea of the tastings on the horizon:

Differing Wood Effects 20.3.14

Springbank Gaja Barolo 9yo (4y refill Bourbon + 5y fresh Gaja Barolo) 54.7% 02/04 – 10/13 11,000 bottles

Springbank Marsala 9yo (7y refill Bourbon  + 2y fresh Marsala casks) 58.0% 10/96 – 08/06 7,740 bottles

Springbank port 14yo ( 12y refill Bourbon + 2y fresh port casks) 52.% 89 – 09/04 7,200 bottles

Springbank Bourbon hogsheads & barrels 12yo 58.5% 12/91 – 02/04 5,986 bottles

Springbnak rum hogsheads and barrels 12yo 54.6% 89 – 04/02 5,700 bottles

Springbank Society 10th Anniversary 3.4.14 

Springbank 17yo 12/90 – 02/08 refill port hogshead 570 bottles 51.5%

Springbank 14yo 06/92 – 03/07 Bourbon hogshead 265 bottles 55.3%

Hazelburn 8yo 07/98 – 07/06 refill sherry butt 600 bottles 58.7%

Springbank 9yo fresh rum butt 07/97 – 03/07 700 bottles 60.2%

Longrow 8yo 02/97 – 07/05 refill sherry butt 630 bottles 59.9%

10th Anniversary of Canongate tastings tasting  24.04.14 £28/25*

These five drams mean that in ten years we have tried whisky from every distillery in Scotland to have bottled their whisky since Maltmill closed in the 1950s (oops! except Kininvie)

Balmenach-Glenlivet Scotch Malt Whisky society fresh Bourbon barrel cask strength

Glendullan-Glenlivet bottled exclusively for McBains of Dufftown

Royal Lochnagar 17yo 1996 – 03/14 rum cask 606 bottles 57.4%

Dufftown-Glenlivet 34yo 1979 – 03/14 sherry cask 48.0%

Scapa 20yo 1983 – 2013 58.6%

Dunglass 5 Year Old 5cl

A very rare whisky, distilled at Littlemill only in 1967. 

5cl bottle.

Fill level is at top shoulder.

Michael Jackson Special Blend and Beer Hunter, Whisky Chaser

A unique blend put together by the guys at the Whisky Magazine using open bottles from Michael Jackson's private collection.  

Only 1000 bottles we're produced.

Beer Hunter, Whisky Chaser was created in 'Honour of Michael Jackson' with quite an array of whisky writers contribuing to this book:

F. Paul Pacult, Dave Broom, Ian Buxton, Charles MacLean, Hans Offringa, and John Hansell. Beer writers are Steve Beaumont, Julie Johnson, Roger Protz, , Gavin Smith, Conrad Seidl, and Lucy Saunders. Finally there's a chapter by Carolyn Smagalski, Michael’s partner.

Hardback, 176 pages, published by Distilled Discourse.