January 2015 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 0865.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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.

The bottle and box are in excellent condition.

Port Ellen 1979 25 Year Old 4th Release

The forth release of the incredibly 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 0827.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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.

The bottle is in excellent condition, however please note the damp marking to the back of the box.

Bowmore 1968 Bourbon Cask 37 Year Old

Distilled in 1968 and matured in Bourbon wood, this highly limited bottling from the Golden age of Bowmore.

Bottle number 046 of 708.

Bruichladdich 40 Year Old

This mythical 40 year old Bruichladdich is the oldest official release from the distillery.

Distilled on 24th October 1964 and matured in a single bourbon cask until bottling in november 2004.  There were only 550 bottles released and this bottle comes with the original packaging in the typical Bruichladdich tin and the wooden box alongisde a signed certificate from Jim McEwan.

Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve 23 Year Old

The oldest release as part of the 'Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve' series of bourbons.  

Matured for an incredible 23 years, this is now one of the most desirable, collectable and stunning bourbons in the world.

Bottle Code F-2020

Brora 35 Year Old 2014 Release

The latest official Brora release from Diageo.  Matured for 35 years in a combination of European and America oak casks.

Limited to only 2,964 bottles this is bottle number #1166.

Port Ellen 1979 32 Year Old 11th Release

The eleventh edition of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 32 years later in 2011, bottled at cask strength and limited to 2,988 bottles, this is bottle 2741.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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.

The bottle and box are in excellent condition.

Port Ellen 1978 31 Year Old 10th Release

The tenth edition of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1978 and bottled 31 years later in 2010, bottled at cask strength and limited to 3,000 bottles, this is bottle 0886.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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.

The bottle and box are in excellent condition.

Port Ellen 1979 24 Year Old 3rd Release

The third release within Diageo's annual Port Ellen releases, distilled in 1979 and bottled 24 years later in 2003, bottled at cask strength and limited to 9,000 bottles, this is bottle 6396.

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 27 Year Old 6th Release

The sixth edition of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1978 and bottled 27 years later in 2006, bottled at cask strength and limited to 4,560 bottles, this is bottle1420.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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.

The bottle and box are in excellent condition.

Port Ellen 1979 25 Year Old 5th Release

The fifth release of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 25 years later in 2003, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5280 bottles, this is bottle 1662.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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 minor water damage to back label and box.

Port Ellen 1978 24 Year Old 2nd Release

The second of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1978 and bottled 24 years later in 2002, bottled at cask strength and limited to 12,000 bottles, this is bottle 2437.

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.

Bottle and box are in excellent condition, there is a slight mark on the rear label.

Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old 9th Release

The ninth of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 30 years later in 2009, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5,916 bottles, this is bottle 4073.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in 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.

The bottle and box are in excellent condition.

Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve 20 Year Old

This bourbon has become quite legendary, particularly after the theft of 65 3 bottle cases in 2013.

Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Feis Ile 2003

Bottled on the 20th May 2005 as Bunnabahhain's 2003 Feis Isle bottling. This was a combination of the last seven hogsheads of 1963 Bunnahabhain that were in existence, distilled on 11th May 1963. The cask yielded 743 bottles at a cask strength of 42.9%.

Port Ellen 1978 29 Year Old 8th Release 75cl (US Import)

The 8th Port Ellen to be released in Diageo's super premium editions, distilled in 1978 and bottled in 2008 as a 29 year old.. 

Bottle number 6,329 of 6,618.

75cl

Balvenie 1978 Vintage Cask

Direct from Balvenies Website: \"The Balvenie Vintage Cask 1978 was selected in 2009 by David Stewart and three senior members of the British Bee Keepers Association. Two exceptional casks were identified as best exemplifying The Balvenie's signature honeyed complexity.\"

This is cask 2705, which was bottled on 11th of March 2009 at cask strength.

Bottle number 65 of 176.

Brora 32 Year Old 2011 Release

The 2011 release of Brora by Diageo, was the first official bottling of Brora over the age of 30.

This is bottle number 1120 of 1,500.

Brora 1981 The Bottlers 19 Year Old

A very rare bottling of Brora by the renkowned Edinburgh wine merchant, Raeburn Fine Wines.  

Bottled under 'The Bottlers' series this is one of two Brora's released by them.  

Distilled in 1981 from refill sherry butt cask number #1077.

Balvenie Craftman's Reserve - The Cooper

The first in a range of whiskies that may continue in the future that have been created to commemorate the craftmen who work at the distillery.  This very limited Balvenie was released from a marriage of two casks of 15 year old whisky with cask numbers # 10142 and 17949. 

This was originally only available through Balvenie's online community Warehouse 24.

Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #6 75cl (US Import) 

From the distillery website the Balvenie Tun 1401, Batch 6 is a skillful marriage of some of the rarest treasures from the distillery’s Warehouse 24 – an unrepeatable selection of spirits sourced from seven traditional whisky casks and two sherry butts, whose ages span a number of decades, and which have all been hand-selected by Malt Master David Stewart. The whisky was rested for several months in Tun 1401 – The Balvenie’s traditional oak marrying vessel – to create a single malt that enhances its already precious parts.

The expression has been exclusively created for the U.S. market, and follows the hugely successful Batch 3, which was released in 2011. In 2013, Batch 9 was also introduced especially for the U.S. market.

Please note this is at 75cl bottle.

Seven traditional whisky casks   
#6424
#15916
#5040
#5246
#7048
#15341
#15329

Two sherry butts
#692
#8589

Bowmore 1989 24 Year Old Feis Ile 2014 

A very popular release at this years Feis Ile, one of several Bowmore releases at this years Feis Ile.

This particular bottling was a combination of two casks  both from 1989, a first fill French oak wine barrique and a first fill American bourbon barrel.  This 24 year old whisky was limited to a mere 300 bottles which sold out by 2pm on Bowmore's open day. 

Bowmore 22 Year Old/ The Gulls

Yet another of Bowmore's many legends.

Back in the day, When the Scots traveled from their Celtic lands to create the Kingdom of Dalriada-in-Alban, the Pictish and Brythonic tribes who already lived in the lands resisted fiercely. Legend says that the daughter of a Pictish King fell in love with a captured Scottish warrior and helped him escape. Together they fled westwards to Islay. Rowing towards the young warrior's home on the shores of Loch Indaal, a terrible storm assaulted their boat, sending it crashing into the rocky coast line.

The young Scot's clansmen found only debris and no sign of the lovers - but a pair of white gulls soared and swooped together across the Loch, settling neither on the western nor the eastern shore, as if torn between the two.

... on the whisky front this is a 22 year old Bowmore presented in a stunning blue decanter with a stylish box.

Balvenie 30 Year Old

A well respected 30 year old from Balvenie, which won a Gold Medal at the 2010 International Spirits Challenge.

Port Ellen 1979 Signatory Vintage 24 Year Old Burgundy Finish

A very rare Signatory Vintage release, distilled in 1979 and bottled in 2004.

Port Ellen 1979 Signatory Vintage 24 Year Old Burgundy Finish

A very rare Signatory Vintage release, distilled in 1979 and bottled in 2004.

Port Ellen 1975 Dormant Distillery Co

A 24 year old single cask  Port Ellen bottled by Royal Mile Whiskies.

Bottle number 11 of 96.

Port Ellen 1978 Douglas Laing 27 Year Old

A single cask Port Ellen, distilled in September 1978  and bottled within Douglas Laing's Platinum Selection in February 2006.

Matured in a an ex- bourbon cask his is one of 375 bottles.

Brora 1983 Signatory Vintage 

A rare Signatory Vintage Silent Stills bottling of Brora distilled on 18th January 1983 and bottled on 3rd September 2001.

Single cask #40 yielded 294 bottles this is bottle number 273.

Port Ellen 1982 MacKillop's Choice

A Mackillop's Choice bottling of Port Ellen from 5th May 1982 and bottled in March 2011 from single cask #1511, this is bottle 140 of 320.

Bottled at cask strength.

Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #9 (US Exclusive) 75cl

From the distillery website, this was inspired by and produced in one of the oldest warehouses at our distillery, Batch 9 is a skillful marriage of some of the rarest treasures from Warehouse 24. It represents an unrepeatable selection of spirits sourced from eleven traditional whisky casks and three sherry butts, whose ages span a number of decades, and which have all been hand-selected by David Stewart. The whisky rested for several months in Tun 1401 – one of the distillery’s unique marrying vessels – to create a single malt that is greater than the sum of its already precious parts.

This expression was exclusively available in the U.S. market, and follows the hugely successful Batch 3 and Batch 6.

Please note this is a 75cl bottle.

Eleven traditional whisky casks

15921
5034
5249
55
12871
15326
6564
5826
13461
1635
939

Three sherry butts
12612
13572
13135

Port Ellen 1982 Bladnoch Forum 24 Year Old

Simply packaged with all the information anyone needs, this Port Ellen was chosen for the Bladnoch Forum.

Distilled on 13th October 1982 and matured for 24 years in a single Butt #2461 until bottling in November 2006.

644 bottles produced.