March 2019 Auction

Old Crow 6 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1970s

Old Crow is one of Kentucky's earliest bourbon brands, created in the 1830's by Scottish immigrant, James C. Crow, Master Distiller at the Old Oscar Pepper distillery. He pioneered the use of scientific methods to ensure continuity in the quality of his whiskey. The brand was purchased by W.A. Gaines who opened the Old Crow distillery. Both were then procured by National Distillers during prohibition, who produced the brand until 1987 when they were purchased by Jim Beam who shut the distillery and moved production to their Clermont facility.

This is the National Distillers era version, bottled in 1979 at the Old Grand-Dad distillery.

Italian import.

Old Perth 2004 12 Year Old Blended Malt No.1 / Macallan and Highland Park

A 12 year old blend of Macallan and Highland Park? Yes please!

One of only 666 bottles produced from a single cask.

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones / The Night's Watch

A special release of Oban single malt.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO 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. 

Old Pulteney 2001 SMWS 17 Year Old 52.24

'Tin foil hats at Dronoch Castle'

This is a single cask Old Pulteney bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

Distilled in in June 2001 and aged for 17 years in a refill ex-bourbon barrel.

One of 184 bottles.

Old Pulteney 1997 Hand Filled 15 Year Old #1083 / Bourbon Cask

A single bourbon cask matured Old Pulteney, bottled by hand at the distillery. 

Distilled on the 8th September 1997 and bottled on the 10th May 2014.

Bottle number 207.

Otard Princes De Cognac

An older bottle of the classic teardrop design bottle from Baron Otard.

Octomore 7.2 / Travel Retail Exclusive

Aged for 5 years in true Octomore fashion, the latest travel retail exclusive was distilled from barley peated to an incredible 208 ppm.

Matured in American oak bourbon casks before being enhanced in Syrah wine casks from France's Rhone Valley.

Old Pulteney 1995 Gordon and MacPhail Cask Strength

A single cask Old Pulteney distilled in 1995 and bottled in 2010 by Gordon and MacPhails.

Drawn from first fill sherry butt #1505

Octomore 7.3 Islay Barley

Aged for 5 years in true Octomore fashion, this is a very heavily peated Bruichladdich at 169ppm. The barley is also entirely sourced from the island of Islay.

Distilled in 2010 and matured in American oak before being married into Spanish wine casks from the Ribero de Duero region.

The barley was harvested from a single field called Lorgba in 2009.

Octomore 7.3 Islay Barley

Aged for 5 years in true Octomore fashion, this is a very heavily peated Bruichladdich at 169ppm. The barley is also entirely sourced from the island of Islay.

Distilled in 2010 and matured in American oak before being married into Spanish wine casks from the Ribero de Duero region.

The barley was harvested from a single field called Lorgba in 2009.

Old Pulteney 1998 Gordon and MacPhail 19 Year Old Batch #18/049

A small batch Old Pulteney distilled in 1998 and bottled in 2018 at 19 years old.

Batch 18/049 was bottled on the 21st of June and totalled 192 bottles.

Oban 1989 Distillers Edition 1 Litre

Diageo's distiller's edition releases have a different wine cask finish for each distillery.

This Oban has been finished in Montilla Fino cask wood. Bottled in 2003.

Octomore 6.2 / Travel Retail Exclusive

Aged for 5 years in true Octomore fashion, the latest travel retail exclusive was finished in Limousin Oak which previously held 'one of the world's great Eaux de Vie'.  

18,000 bottles produced and bottled at 58.2%

167 ppm.

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones / The Night's Watch

A special release of Oban single malt.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO 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. 

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones / The Night's Watch

A special release of Oban single malt.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO 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. 

Octomore 6.1 Scottish Barley

An Octomore with a ridiculously high peating level of 167 ppm.

Aged for 5 years and made with barley grown exclusively in Scotland.

Octomore 2002 Futures

The original Futures release, distilled on the 16th October 2002 and bottled in April 2008.

This 5 year old Octomore was matured exclusively in Buffalo Trace casks, peated to 80.5ppm.

Bottle number 7017 of only 9600 bottles.

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones / The Night's Watch

A special release of Oban single malt.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO 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. 

Octomore 2002 Futures

The original Futures release, distilled on the 16th October 2002 and bottled in April 2008.

This 5 year old Octomore was matured exclusively in Buffalo Trace casks, peated to 80.5ppm.

Bottle number 6478 of only 9600 bottles.

Octomore 2002 Futures

The original Futures release, distilled on the 16th October 2002 and bottled in April 2008.

This 5 year old Octomore was matured exclusively in Buffalo Trace casks, peated to 80.5ppm.

Bottle number 6483 of only 9600 bottles.

Old Pulteney 17 Year Old

One of our favourites, Old Pulteney 17 year old has been highly acclaimed receiving an impressive 96.5 points in the Whisky Bible.  

This was in the same year that their 21 year old received Best Whisky in the World - we personally think the 17 year old is better, but don't tell Jim.

Now discontinued and a popular drinker so we expect stocks to dry up fast. Grab it while you can!

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones / The Night's Watch

A special release of Oban single malt.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO 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. 

Octomore 2002 Futures

The original Futures release, distilled on the 16th October 2002 and bottled in April 2008.

This 5 year old Octomore was matured exclusively in Buffalo Trace casks, peated to 80.5ppm.

Bottle number 3423 of only 9600 bottles.

Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1980s

Old Crow is was one of Kentucky's earliest bourbon brands, created in the 1830's by Scottish immigrant, James C. Crow, Master Distiller at the Old Oscar Pepper distillery. He pioneered the use of scientific methods to ensure continuity in the quality of his whiskey. The brand was purchased by W.A. Gaines who opened the Old Crow distillery. Both were then procured by National Distillers during prohibition, who produced the brand until 1987 when they were purchased by Jim Beam who shut the distillery and moved production to their Clermont facility.

This is the National Distillers era version bottled in 1987, immediately prior the Beam takeover, at their Old Grand-dad distillery. 

Italian import.

Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1980s

Old Crow is was one of Kentucky's earliest bourbon brands, created in the 1830's by Scottish immigrant, James C. Crow, Master Distiller at the Old Oscar Pepper distillery. He pioneered the use of scientific methods to ensure continuity in the quality of his whiskey. The brand was purchased by W.A. Gaines who opened the Old Crow distillery. Both were then procured by National Distillers during prohibition, who produced the brand until 1987 when they were purchased by Jim Beam who shut the distillery and moved production to their Clermont facility.

This is the National Distillers era version bottled in 1987, immediately prior the Beam takeover, at their Old Grand-dad distillery. 

Italian import.

Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1980s

Old Crow is was one of Kentucky's earliest bourbon brands, created in the 1830's by Scottish immigrant, James C. Crow, Master Distiller at the Old Oscar Pepper distillery. He pioneered the use of scientific methods to ensure continuity in the quality of his whiskey. The brand was purchased by W.A. Gaines who opened the Old Crow distillery. Both were then procured by National Distillers during prohibition, who produced the brand until 1987 when they were purchased by Jim Beam who shut the distillery and moved production to their Clermont facility.

This is the National Distillers era version bottled in 1987, immediately prior the Beam takeover, at their Old Grand-dad distillery. 

Italian import.

Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1980s

Old Crow is was one of Kentucky's earliest bourbon brands, created in the 1830's by Scottish immigrant, James C. Crow, Master Distiller at the Old Oscar Pepper distillery. He pioneered the use of scientific methods to ensure continuity in the quality of his whiskey. The brand was purchased by W.A. Gaines who opened the Old Crow distillery. Both were then procured by National Distillers during prohibition, who produced the brand until 1987 when they were purchased by Jim Beam who shut the distillery and moved production to their Clermont facility.

This is the National Distillers era version bottled in 1987, immediately prior the Beam takeover, at their Old Grand-dad distillery. 

Italian import.

Octomore 2002 Futures

The original Futures release, distilled on the 16th October 2002 and bottled in April 2008.

This 5 year old Octomore was matured exclusively in Buffalo Trace casks, peated to 80.5ppm.

Bottle number 6427 of only 9600 bottles.

Octomore 2002 Futures

The original Futures release, distilled on the 16th October 2002 and bottled in April 2008.

This 5 year old Octomore was matured exclusively in Buffalo Trace casks, peated to 80.5ppm.

Bottle number 6470 of only 9600 bottles.

Barton 1792 Full Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon

This is a Kentucky straight bourbon from the Sazerac company's Barton 1792 distillery, bottled at the bourbon's original 125 barrel entry proof.

The Barton 1792 distillery is one of Kentucky's oldest, having also been called simply Barton, and Thomas Moore over the years. The site was badly damaged in 2018 when both halves of one of its main warehouses collapsed in the same month, ensuring a likely shortage to come.

Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1980s

Old Crow is was one of Kentucky's earliest bourbon brands, created in the 1830's by Scottish immigrant, James C. Crow, Master Distiller at the Old Oscar Pepper distillery. He pioneered the use of scientific methods to ensure continuity in the quality of his whiskey. The brand was purchased by W.A. Gaines who opened the Old Crow distillery. Both were then procured by National Distillers during prohibition, who produced the brand until 1987 when they were purchased by Jim Beam who shut the distillery and moved production to their Clermont facility.

This is the National Distillers era version bottled in 1987, immediately prior the Beam takeover, at their Old Grand-dad distillery. 

Italian import.

Oban Bay Reserve Game of Thrones / The Night's Watch

A special release of Oban single malt.

Diageo's 2018 collaboration with HBO 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.