January 2018 Auction

Brora 34 Year Old 2017 Release

Released in 2017 by Diageo as part of their ongoing annual super-premium releases.

One of 3000 bottles, this is 2325.

Balmenach 1962 Duthie for Corti 75cl / US Import​

Distilled 1962 when the distillery was under the Haig & Haig Limited banner and bottled in 1983 by R.W. Duthie & Co, Aberdeen, Scotland

Specially selected by Narsai M. David especially for Narsai's Restaurant and Corti Brothers.

Bunnahabhain 1965 Single Cask 35 Year Old

Distilled in November 1965 and matured in single cask #7159 for 35 years until being bottles in April 2001. 

One of 594 bottles. 

Brora 35 Year Old 2012 Release

Another fantastic release from Diageo as part of their ongoing annual super premium releases.

Released in 2012 this was the oldest official bottled Brora at the time, only more recently beaten by the single cask 40 year old available at Travel Retail for no less than £6,995 which makes these bottlings seem a bargain!

Matured in ex-bourbon casks filled in 1976 and 1977, this 35 year old Brora is bottle number 1394 of 1,566

Bowmore 1974 Moon Imports / The Costumes

A single cask Bowmore bottle in 1988 by Moon Imports. 

Bottle number 225 of 324 from hogshead 5508. 

Brora 35 Year Old 2012 Release

Another fantastic release from Diageo as part of their ongoing annual super premium releases.

Released in 2012 this was the oldest official bottled Brora at the time, only more recently beaten by the single cask 40 year old available at Travel Retail for no less than £6,995 which makes these bottlings seem a bargain!

Matured in ex-bourbon casks filled in 1976 and 1977, this 35 year old Brora is bottle number 659 of 1,566

Bruichladdich 1964 17 Year Old / Moon Import

An incredibly rare bottle of the old style Bruichladdich 17 year old, bottled in the early 1980's.

Bottle no. 735

Imported by Moon Import for the Italian market.

Bladnoch 1958 Cadenhead's 34 Year Old​

Distilled November 1958 and bottled June 1993 at 34 years old by Cadenhead.

Balvenie Tun 1858 Batch #3

A marriage of 10 Traditional whisky casks and 3 Sherry Butts created the third limited edition Balvenie Tun 1858, for the Taiwanese market. 

As with the Balvenie Tun 1401, these whiskies are hand-selected by Malt Master David Stewart. Ten traditional whisky casks and three sherry butts are combined and rested for several months in Tun 1858. 

The expression consists of the casks shown below.

Ten traditional whisky casks
#15919
#5248
#13135
#7073
#15347
#15332
#6129
#13461
#1634
#487

Three sherry butts
#16088
#1042
#8554

Bruichladdich 1970

A legendary Bruichladdich (scoring 95 points on Whisky Fun), distilled in 1970.  4,200 bottles were released in 2002.

Matured entirely in ex-bourbon casks.

Brora 1977 Rare Malt 24 Year Old / 56.1%

The Rare Malt Selection is a historic selection of single malt whiskies from operational and lost distilleries that were released by Diageo between 1995 and 2005.

Brora closed in 1983 and over the years has contributed to 13 different Rare Malt Selection releases. 

This bottle was distilled in 1977 and bottled in October 2001 as a 24 year old.

Bottle number 5803

Balblair 1966 38 Year Old

Balblair carries the moto 'The Spirit of the Air', this legendary bottling was distilled in 1966 and bottled exclusively from Spanish oak 38 years later.

Whisky Magazine scored this whisky over 9 points on several occasions.

Bottle number 2449.

Brora 1977 Rare Malt 21 Year Old / 56.9%

The Rare Malt Selection is an historic selection of single malt whiskies from operational and lost distilleries that were released by Diageo between 1995 and 2005.

Brora closed in 1983 and over the years has contributed to 13 different Rare Malt releases. 

This bottle was distilled in 1977 and bottled in October 1998 as a 21 year old.

Bottle number 6497.

Balvenie Tun 1858 Batch #3

A marriage of 10 Traditional whisky casks and 3 Sherry Butts created the third limited edition Balvenie Tun 1858, for the Taiwanese market. 

As with the Balvenie Tun 1401, these whiskies are hand-selected by Malt Master David Stewart. Ten traditional whisky casks and three sherry butts are combined and rested for several months in Tun 1858. 

The expression consists of the casks shown below.

Ten traditional whisky casks
#15919
#5248
#13135
#7073
#15347
#15332
#6129
#13461
#1634
#487

Three sherry butts
#16088
#1042
#8554

Blair Athol 1967 Duthie for Corti 75cl / US Import​

Bottled in 1983 by R.W Duthie & Co of Aberdeen, this was for Narsai's Restaurant and the Corti Brothers of Sacramento, California.

These Duthie bottlings represent some of the rarest expression of their respective distilleries. 

Bottled in 1983.

Bruichladdich 21 Year Old Moon Import / Penny Black

An extremely rare and collectible release from Moon Import brought out to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

The box depicts an old black stamp featuring Queen Victoria. Once upon a time the stamp costed just £0.01p

Benromach 1969 Sherry Cask

A 2011 vatting of two refill sherry hogsheads, #2006 and #2008.

Rich colour and a funky tube to boot.

Brora 1982 Gordon and MacPhail

Distilled in 1982 at the famous closed distillery and bottled in 2015.

One of 365 bottles.

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.

Italian import

Decanter weight: 1.4kg

Brora 1981 The Bottlers 19 Year Old

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

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

Distilled in June 1981 and bottled in July 2000 from refill sherry butt cask #1077.

Booker's Fred Noe Select Exclusive for Seijo Ishii

Fred Noe is the current Master Distiller at Jim Beam, he is the son of \"Booker\" Noe and the great grandson of the \"Jim Beam\", making him the seventh generation Beam family distiller. 

He specially selected three casks for upscale Japanese supermarket chain Seijo Ishii. 

Bottled at 6 Years old.

This is batch number 693 of 700

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 1858 Batch #2

A marriage of 9 American Oak casks and 3 European Oak Sherry casks created the second limited edition Balvenie Tun 1858, for the Taiwanese market. A limited release of only 2,600 bottles this has rarely been seen at auction.

As with the Balvenie Tun 1401, these whiskies are hand-selected by Malt Master David Stewart. Nine traditional whisky casks and two sherry butts are combined and rested for several months in Tun 1858.  The vintages range from 1966 and 1975.

The expression consists of the casks shown below.

Six traditional whisky casks   
#15915
#5247
#15340
#7050
#15344
#15337
#5824
#1500
#446

Three sherry butts
#11439
#13439
#763

Balvenie Tun 1858 Batch #2

A marriage of 9 American Oak casks and 3 European Oak Sherry casks created the second limited edition Balvenie Tun 1858, for the Taiwanese market. A limited release of only 2,600 bottles this has rarely been seen at auction.

As with the Balvenie Tun 1401, these whiskies are hand-selected by Malt Master David Stewart. Nine traditional whisky casks and two sherry butts are combined and rested for several months in Tun 1858.  The vintages range from 1966 and 1975.

The expression consists of the casks shown below.

Six traditional whisky casks   
#15915
#5247
#15340
#7050
#15344
#15337
#5824
#1500
#446

Three sherry butts
#11439
#13439
#763

Bunnahabhain 1964 Moon Import / The Animals​

An incredibly rare bottling of Bunnahabhain bottled by the Italian importers, Moon Import for their popular 'Animal Series'.

Distilled in 1964 and bottled in 1989 from Hogsheads #423, #424 and #425

One of only 600 bottles produced.

Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #4

As with the previous releases of Balvenie Tun 1401, these whiskies are hand-selected by Malt Master David Stewart. Seven traditional whisky casks and three sherry butts are combined and rested for several months in Tun 1401 – The Balvenie’s traditional oak marrying vessel.

The expression has been exclusively created for the travel retail market and consists of the casks shown below.

Seven traditional whisky casks   
#4287
#5240
#762
#15330
#5832
#13451
#8408
Three Sherry butts
#11434
#13142
#15336

Please not condition of tube.

Ballantine's 30 Year Old 1970s / Spirit Import

A 30 year old Ballantines, the oldest whisky released in the Ballantine's range

Aged Ballantine's are highly acclaimed with a number of their releases winning international awards for spirits.

Spirit import for the Italian market.

Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #9 75cl / US Exclusive

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

Bruichladdich 1973 30 Year Old

A stunning 30 year old Bruichladdich distilled in 1973 and bottled in 2003.

Matured in a combination of 65% American oak and 35% Refill Sherry Hogsheads.

Bottle 1909 of only 4,200 bottles.

Please note there is no tube. 

US Import. 

Balvenie 30 Year Old

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

Bowmore 2000 Hand Filled 17 Year Old Cask #2495 / 1st Fill Sherry Puncheon​

Available to bottle yourself at Bowmore distillery, this 'hand filled' was distilled on 6th November 2000 and botted on 28th December 2017, at just over 17 years old.

This is bottled from a single 1st fill sherry puncheon #2495

Bottle No.79

Balvenie 30 Year Old

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