March 2019 Auction

Glenmorangie 1989 Grand Vintage / Bond House No.1 Collection

A spectacular Glenmorangie, part of their Bond House No.1 Collection which is a series of releases from Glenmorangie's original 19th century warehouse. Bond House No.1 was transformed into the distillery's Stillhouse in order to increase production capacity the year after this was distilled, making it one of the final vintages to be warhoused there.

This is a vatting of several 1989 vintages, blended by Glenmorangie's Dr. Bill Lumsden and finished in Cote-de-Rotie casks before being bottles in this stunning decanter bottle in 2017.

Number 2244 of 6178 bottles.

Dailuaine 1962 Cadenhead's 27 Year Old

Distilled in November 1962 and then bottled in December 1989, this is a 27 year old Dailuaine.

Bottled by Cadenhead's as part of their iconic 'dumpy' series. 

Glendronach Grandeur 25 Year Old Batch #008

The eighth release within the Grandeur series from Glendronach, matured in Oloroso sherry casks and bottled at cask strength.

Bottle number 47 of 1505.

Dailuaine 1962 Douglas Laing 40 Year Old

Distilled in 1962 and bottled over 40 years later in 2003 as part of Douglas Laing's Old & Rare Platinum Selection. 

Bottle number 105 of 164. 

Glenfarclas 40 Year Old

Bottled from casks specially selected by George S. Grant, Director of Sales and the sixth generation of the family who own and manage the distillery.

A fantastic whisky from one of Scotland's last independents.

Berry Brothers and Rudd 1906 Grand Champagne Cognac

A very impressive vintage Grande Champagne Cognac from renowned wine merchants, Berry Brothers and Rudd.

Distilled in 1906 from grapes grown exclusively in the premium vineyards of the Grande Champagne district, in 1967 the spirit was shipped to BBR's cellars in England where maturation continued for a further 10 years before bottling in 1977.

Glendronach Grandeur 27 Year Old Batch #010

The tenth release within the Grandeur series from Glendronach, matured this time in a mixture of Pedro Ximenez  and Oloroso sherry casks. Bottled at cask strength.

Bottle number 294 of 2293.

Glenfarclas 1953 Single Cask 58 Year Old Miniature 5cl / Wealth Solutions

So few whiskies of this age are available these days, even Glenfarclas has no whisky remaining older than 1953. The whisky was distilled on 20th November 1953 and bottled on 13th February 2012, matured exclusively in a first fill sherry butt #1674.

A panel comprising of whisky connoisseur and a key member of the internationally renowned Malt Maniacs, Serge Valentin, along with Sales Director for Master of Malt, Ben Ellefsen, Michał Kowalski of Wealth Solutions and George Grant himself, unanimously made the selection from the remaining 4 casks distilled in 1953 and cask #1674 was selected to be bottled.

This single cask bottling was released at 58 years old and sold exclusively through Wealth Solutions, Poland.

5* rated by WhiskyFun.com (no numerical score as Serge Valentin assisted with selection).

Glendronach Grandeur 24 Year Old Batch #009

The ninth release within the Grandeur series from Glendronach, matured in Oloroso sherry casks and bottled at cask strength.

Bottle number 842 of 1487.

Glen Ord 1975 Jack Weibers / Prenzlow Portfolio Collection - One of 36 Bottles

A 1975 vintage Glen Ord single malt, bottled for Jack Wiebers Whisky World in Germany.

Part of the Prenzlow Portfolio Collection which feature graphics by famous whisky artist, Alfred Prenzlow on the labels.

Bottle 9 of just 36 made available at the opening night of the exhibition, Angels' Share at Gellery Icon, Berlin.

Game of Thrones Limited Editions 8 x 70cl

The complete set of the Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO, which sees their Classic Malts range reimagined as being somehow related to the landed houses of the Game of Thrones television series.

It may be tenuous, but we love it all the same. The Royal Lochnagar and Talisker make some sense at least, and who can forget all those dragons that used to live at Cardhu, or that massive wall at Oban distillery?

• Oban Bay Reserve 43% / The Night's Watch
• Dalwhinnie Winter's Frost 43% / House Stark
• The Singleton of Glendullan Select 40% / House Tully
• Cardhu Gold Reserve 40% / House Targaryen
• Clynelish Reserve 51.2% / House Tyrell
• Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old 40% / House Baratheon
• Lagavulin 9 Year Old 46% / House Lannister
• Talisker Select Reserve 45.8% / House Greyjoy

Remember, a Lannister always pays his 8 bottle shipping fee. 

Game of Thrones Limited Editions 8 x 70cl

The complete set of the Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO, which sees their Classic Malts range reimagined as being somehow related to the landed houses of the Game of Thrones television series.

It may be tenuous, but we love it all the same. The Royal Lochnagar and Talisker make some sense at least, and who can forget all those dragons that used to live at Cardhu, or that massive wall at Oban distillery?

• Oban Bay Reserve 43% / The Night's Watch
• Dalwhinnie Winter's Frost 43% / House Stark
• The Singleton of Glendullan Select 40% / House Tully
• Cardhu Gold Reserve 40% / House Targaryen
• Clynelish Reserve 51.2% / House Tyrell
• Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old 40% / House Baratheon
• Lagavulin 9 Year Old 46% / House Lannister
• Talisker Select Reserve 45.8% / House Greyjoy

Remember, a Lannister always pays his 8 bottle shipping fee. 

Game of Thrones Limited Editions 8 x 70cl

The complete set of the Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO, which sees their Classic Malts range reimagined as being somehow related to the landed houses of the Game of Thrones television series.

It may be tenuous, but we love it all the same. The Royal Lochnagar and Talisker make some sense at least, and who can forget all those dragons that used to live at Cardhu, or that massive wall at Oban distillery?

• Oban Bay Reserve 43% / The Night's Watch
• Dalwhinnie Winter's Frost 43% / House Stark
• The Singleton of Glendullan Select 40% / House Tully
• Cardhu Gold Reserve 40% / House Targaryen
• Clynelish Reserve 51.2% / House Tyrell
• Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old 40% / House Baratheon
• Lagavulin 9 Year Old 46% / House Lannister
• Talisker Select Reserve 45.8% / House Greyjoy

Remember, a Lannister always pays his 8 bottle shipping fee. 

Game of Thrones Limited Editions 8 x 70cl

The complete set of the Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO, which sees their Classic Malts range reimagined as being somehow related to the landed houses of the Game of Thrones television series.

It may be tenuous, but we love it all the same. The Royal Lochnagar and Talisker make some sense at least, and who can forget all those dragons that used to live at Cardhu, or that massive wall at Oban distillery?

• Oban Bay Reserve 43% / The Night's Watch
• Dalwhinnie Winter's Frost 43% / House Stark
• The Singleton of Glendullan Select 40% / House Tully
• Cardhu Gold Reserve 40% / House Targaryen
• Clynelish Reserve 51.2% / House Tyrell
• Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old 40% / House Baratheon
• Lagavulin 9 Year Old 46% / House Lannister
• Talisker Select Reserve 45.8% / House Greyjoy

Remember, a Lannister always pays his 8 bottle shipping fee. 

Game of Thrones Limited Editions 9 x 70cl

The complete set of the Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO, which sees their Classic Malts range reimagined as being somehow related to the landed houses of the Game of Thrones television series.

It may be tenuous, but we love it all the same. The Royal Lochnagar and Talisker make some sense at least, and who can forget all those dragons that used to live at Cardhu, or that massive wall at Oban distillery?

• Oban Bay Reserve 43% / The Night's Watch
• Dalwhinnie Winter's Frost 43% / House Stark
• The Singleton of Glendullan Select 40% / House Tully
• Cardhu Gold Reserve 40% / House Targaryen
• Clynelish Reserve 51.2% / House Tyrell
• Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old 40% / House Baratheon
• Lagavulin 9 Year Old 46% / House Lannister
• Talisker Select Reserve 45.8% / House Greyjoy
• Johnnie Walker White Walker 41.7%

Remember, a Lannister always pays his 9 bottle shipping fee. 

Glenugie 1981 Reserve Collection 37 Year Old 50cl / Single Cask Edition

Glenugie distilled on 19th June 1981 and bottled on 6th August 2018.

Matured in 3rd Fill Hogshead #3197

Bottle number 115 out of 300.

Glenugie 1981 Reserve Collection 37 Year Old 50cl / Single Cask Edition

Glenugie distilled on 19th June 1981 and bottled on 6th August 2018.

Matured in 3rd Fill Hogshead #3197

Bottle number 74 out of 300.

Glenugie 1981 Reserve Collection 37 Year Old 50cl / Single Cask Edition

Glenugie distilled on 19th June 1981 and bottled on 6th August 2018.

Matured in 3rd Fill Hogshead #3197

Bottle number 91 out of 300.

Glendronach Grandeur 24 Year Old Batch #006

The sixth release within the Grandeur series from Glendronach, matured in Oloroso sherry casks and bottled at cask strength.

Bottle number 978 of 1180. 

Glendronach Grandeur 27 Year Old Batch #010

The tenth release within the Grandeur series from Glendronach, matured this time in a mixture of Pedro Ximenez  and Oloroso sherry casks. Bottled at cask strength.

Bottle number 462 of 2293.

Glen Mhor 1967 Major P.R. Reid Special Reserve 1986

A vintage Glen Mhor, matured in oak hogsheads in Inverness since 1967.

Bottled from the special reserve of Major P.R. Reid in 1986.

Number 258 of 2000 bottles.

Glen Garioch 1985 Hand Filled Cask #1586 / Sherry Butt

A fantastic Glen Garioch distilled on the 11th April 1985 and matured in single sherry butt #1586.

This is a distillery exclusive release, available to visitors to hand bottle.

This one was filled on the 30th November 2018.

Bottle number 91.

Glenburgie 1962 Cadenhead's 22 Year Old

Cadenhead's are Scotland's oldest independent bottler, operating for over 175 years, but perhaps none of their bottlings are as sought after as these 'dumpy' style bottles. All of these were produced with brown glass and an iconic black label, with each distillery given its own letterpress font in homage to William Cadenhead's early career in the printing business.

Distilled November 1962 and then bottled in January 1985, this is a 22 year old Glenburgie.

Glenfiddich 1994 Rare Cask 21 Year Old / Distillery Exclusive

An exceptionally rare bottling of Glenfiddich, released as a unique, personalisable distillery exclusive.

This 21 year old whisky was matured initially in American oak cask before being finished in a single rum cask #11. It was then distilled on the 25th July 1994.

Bottle number 86 of only 96 bottles.

Please note that this is not the official Glenfiddich 130th Anniversary Release. It is distillery exclusive bottling which customers are invited to apply personalised labels to, in a variety of colours. The original customer has misleadingly labelled this as a Glenfiddich 130th Anniversary Release.

Glendronach Grandeur 24 Year Old Batch #009

The ninth release within the Grandeur series from Glendronach, matured in Oloroso sherry casks and bottled at cask strength.

Bottle number 943 of 1487.

Dew of Ben Nevis 1962 Single Blend 40 Year Old

\"Blended at Birth\" this is a single blend from Ben Nevis, meaning both the malt and grain whiskies contained were produced at the distillery.

They were married into a single sherry cask at the time of distillation in 1962, and matured for an incredible 40 years until being bottled in 2002.

Glen Garioch 1985 Hand Filled Cask #1586 / Sherry Butt - with Glass

A fantastic Glen Garioch distilled on the 11th April 1985 and matured in single sherry butt #1586.

This is a distillery exclusive release, available to visitors to hand bottle.

This one was filled on the 23rd January 2019.

Bottle number 132.

Lot includes a Glen Garioch branded glass.

Glen Garioch 1978 Hand Filled Cask #11001 / Bourbon Barrel

A single cask release from one of Scotland's oldest distilleries, established in 1797.

Filled into cask on 16th November 1978 and bottled on 3rd December 2016, making this a 38 year old whisky. 

Available to exclusively Hand-fill by visitors at the distillery. 

Diamond and Versailles SVSG 1996 Velier 18 Year Old Blended in the Barrel Rum

A blended in the barrel rum from Diamond distillery. This is comprised of 2 experimental barrels containing rum from the Diamond metal coffey still and the wooden single pot still from Versailles.

Vesailles distillery closed in the early 1970s, and its still was transferred to Enmore and then Uitvlugt where the barrels in this blend were filled. Versailles still was then moved to Diamond in 2000 when Uitvlugt closed as well.

One of 570 bottled in July 2014.

Glen Elgin 1971 32 Year Old

An impressive Glen Elgin from Diagio's special release range.

Distilled in 1971 and bottled 32 years later.

Bottle 225.

Diamond and Versailles SVSG 1996 Velier 18 Year Old Blended in the Barrel Rum

A blended in the barrel rum from Diamond distillery. This is comprised of 2 experimental barrels containing rum from the Diamond metal coffey still and the wooden single pot still from Versailles.

Vesailles distillery closed in the early 1970s, and its still was transferred to Enmore and then Uitvlugt where the barrels in this blend were filled. Versailles still was then moved to Diamond in 2000 when Uitvlugt closed as well.

One of 570 bottled in July 2014.

Diamond SSN 1996 Velier 16 Year Old Rum

Due to the consolidation of the various Distilleries in Guyana and the relocation of a number stills from across the nation (specifically from Enmore and Uitvlugt) into the DDL Diamond Distillery complex, referring to a rum as Diamond is a somewhat confusing proposition.

This Velier bottling however is understood to have been distilled in the metal coffey still that can be considered to be the original Diamond stills,and bears the cask mark SSN.

Distilled in a Coffey still in 1996 and bottled April 2011.

The three SSN barrels - 8404, 8405 & 8407 - and were hand selected by Luca Gargano of Velier and produced 828 bottles after 16 years of tropical ageing and a whopping angel's share of 75%.

This bottle dates from an all too brief period in the history of rum when Luca/Vellier had seemingly unfettered access to the storehouses at DDL and produced a series of bottlings of sublime quality in may ways replicating success of early Samaroli and Moon bottlings. 

Sadly the arrangement seems to have come to an end and it is unclear whether we will see the likes of these rums again.