May 2018 Auction

Imperial 1979 SMWS 11 Year Old 65.2​

Imperial distilled in October 1979 and matured for 11 years until being bottled in July 1991. 

Bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. 

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare 1st Edition​ / Brora​

A limited release of Johnnie Walker's most premium brand. The Ghost and Rare blends will focus on Scotland's lost and sorely missed distilleries, with this first release built around malt from the legendary Brora. Other \"Ghosts\" rearing their welcome heads from the annals of whisky history is malt from lost Speyside distillery Pittyvaich, and Cambus grain, which closed in 2002 and 1993 respectively.

Given that Brora shut it's doors in 1983, were talking about whisky that was distilled at least 34 years ago!

Speaking of the Ghost and Rare series, master blender Jim Beveridge had the following to say:

“Whiskies from these ghost distilleries are becoming increasingly rare. From our library of irreplaceable casks that we keep exclusively for Johnnie Walker Blue Label, I've chosen a few uniquely full-bodied expressions of these precious malts and grains to let people explore, in a new way, the extraordinary richness found in our pinnacle whisky.”​

Johnnie Walker Blue Label San Francisco Limited Edition 75cl / US Import​

A limited bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive San Francisco design on the bottle and box.

Jim Beam Selection 70cl and 4 x 5cl

A special edition bottling to celebrate Beam being listed on the NY Stock Exchange on october 4th 2011. 

Also included is a miniature gift pack with 4 x 5cl of various products from the beam portfolio.

J.W. Dant 1979 Bottled in Bond 100 Proof 1 Litre​

An old bottle of J.W. Dant sour mash bourbon. This bottle was distilled in 1979 and bottled in bond in 1984.

Joseph Washington Dant was a Kentucky distiller during the 1830's He was famous for making whisky using a log still. This was an old time method from when the settlers did not have the money for a copper still. A section of tree trunk would be hollowed out with a copper pipe running through it. The hollowed section would be filled with the fermented mash and steam fed through the pipe to start distillation

Interestingly, the back label states that this was distilled at DSP-KY-113, now known as Buffalo Trace (George T. Stagg at the time). The Dant Gesthemane distillery had closed in 1961, and then proprietors, Schenley, were procuring barrels from elswhere and bottling them at their distillery in Indiana. The brand is now owned by Heaven Hill.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Los Angeles Limited Edition

A limited edition bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive Los Angeles design on the bottle and box.

J.W. Dant 7 Year Old Bourbon 1960s

An old bottle of J.W. Dant sour mash bourbon. This bottle date from the late 1960's.

Joseph Washington Dant was a Kentucky distiller during the 1830's He was famous for making whisky using a log still. This was an old time method from when the settlers did not have the money for a copper still. A section of tree trunk would be hollowed out with a copper pipe running through it. The hollowed section would be filled with the fermented mash and steam fed through the pipe to start distillation.

These days the Dant brand is produced at Heaven Hill. This 1960's bottling however was produced at the Schenley, who acquired the Dant Gesthemane distillery in 1952, where this was distilled. Gesthemane closed in the early 1960's so this would have been bottled at Schenley in Indiana.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label San Francisco Limited Edition 75cl / US Import​

A limited bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive San Francisco design on the bottle and box.

Johnnie Walker XR 21 Year Old 75cl

Inspired by the hand written notes of Sir Alexander Walker, the grandson of Johnnie Walker.  The 21 year old XR Johnnie Walker is a luxury blend including casks from closed distilleries such as Brora.

Ichiro's Malt and Grain Limited Edition​

A blended whisky produced by the celebrated Ichiro Akuto. 

This is his World Blended Whisky. 

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Great Inventions 75cl / Taiwan Edition​

A limited edition Blue Label in an attractive bottleand at a higher ABV than usual.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Dog 1 Litre

A bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label... the icon of whisky world wide. 

This is a special release for the Year of the Dog, 2018.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Madrid Limited Edition

A limited edition bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive Madrid design on the bottle and box.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Barcelona Limited Edition

A limited edition bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive Barcelona design on the bottle and box.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Horse 75cl

A special release Blue Label for Chinese New Year 2014, Year of the Horse.

Jura 1984 19 Year Old

This limited edition \"George Orwell Commemorative Edition\", distilled in 1984 - as per Orwell's iconic novel, which was written during his time living on Jura - was bottled in 2003, as a 19 year malt, to mark the centenary of Orwell's birth. 

This 19 year old Isle of Jura was finished in Palo Cortado Oloroso sherry casks with only 4,800 bottles being released.

Irish Single Malt #1 That Boutique-y Whisky Company 24 Year Old Batch #1

The first Irish whisk(e)y to be bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company / Master of Malt.

One of 264 bottles.

Imperial 1989 Carn Mor / Celebration of the Cask

A single cask Imperial, distilled in December 1989 and matured in bourbon barrel #2892.

One of 200 bottled on 26th July 2017 by Carn Mor as part of their Celebration of the Cask series.

Johnnie Walker XR 21 Year Old 

Inspired by the hand written notes of Sir Alexander Walker, the grandson of Johnnie Walker.  The 21 year old XR Johnnie Walker is a luxury blend including casks from closed distilleries such as Brora.

Jack Daniel's Sinatra Select 1 Litre / Signed​

\"Bottled at 90 proof, and made with unique “Sinatra Barrels”, Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select pays tribute to Jack’s biggest fan: Mr. Frank Sinatra. These Sinatra barrels have deep grooves on the inside of the staves — which exposes the whiskey to extra layers of oak. This imparts a rich amber color, bold character and a pleasant smokiness, followed by an incredibly smooth vanilla finish. Much like Frank himself, this whiskey is one of a kind.\"

Signed by Jeff Arnett in 2014.

Johnnie Walker 1820 

A rare bottle of Johnnie Walker produced as a one-off blend for the Japanese market.

Premium blend expected to contain whiskies of around 21 years old.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Los Angeles Limited Edition 75cl / US Import​

A limited bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive Los Angeles design on the bottle and box.

Irish Single Malt #1 That Boutique-y Whisky Company 24 Year Old Batch #1

The first Irish whisk(e)y to be bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company / Master of Malt.

One of 264 bottles.

Jameson Special Reserve / 100 Years of Radio​

A limited edition bottling of Jameson celebrating 100 years of the Radio, which was invented by Guglielmo Marconi, who was the great grandson of John Jameson.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Rooster

A bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label... the icon of whisky world wide. 

This is a special release for the new Chinese Year of the Rooster, 2017.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Rooster

A bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label... the icon of whisky world wide. 

This is a special release for the new Chinese Year of the Rooster, 2017.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Voyager Commemoration / Taipei

A very rare special edition Johnnie Walker Blue Label designed in Commemoration of the Voyager Yacht sailing through Asia from September 2012 to March 2013. 

Very unusually for Walker, this has been bottled at a high strength of 48%. 

John Jameson 12 Year Old 1980s

With one eye on warehouses full of aging stock, and another across the Atlantic to a United States of America set to repeal the Prohibition Act, a 12 Year Old Jameson was first bottled in 1932. This premium expression was distilled in the quintessential Irish style, from a mash of malted and unmalted cereals in traditional copper pots.

The first Jameson 12 blend represents a significant change in Irish distilling at the time, one that likely saved the industry. The Jameson, Powers and Cork distilling companies had banded together as irish Distillers in an effort to pool resources and capitalise on what was about to become a hugely expanded export market. Jameson was pushed as the poster boy and in an effort to appeal to international tastes at the time, the old Irish pot still whiskeys would henceforth become the modern blends that we recognise today.

This particular blend is a marriage of both of Irelands great closed distilleries, Jameson's Bow Street, and Powers' John's Lane. The pure pot still content is from Bow Street, and the grain, since Jameson's did not have a patent still, came from John's Lane. There is some serious Irish distilling history captured in this bottle. We hear it doesn't taste too bad either!

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Dog 75cl

A special release Blue Label for Chinese New Year 2018, Year of the Dog.

Johnnie Walker Quest

Johnnie Walker Quest was a premium blend positioned above the Blue Label in the Johnnie Walker range.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Rooster 2017 75cl 

A bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label... the icon of whisky world wide. 

This is a special release for the new Chinese Year of the Rooster, 2017.

I.W. Harper President's Reserve Decanter

The I.W is named after Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, who founded the brand. With his brother he helped establish Louisville, Kentucky as a centre for Bourbon production. 

This President's Reserve bottling is a great example of a well aged Bourbon. Although Bernheim is now owned by Heaven Hill, Diageo continued to produce the brand using whisky distilled there. It was aged in Stizel-Weller warehouses and then bottled at their George Dickel plant at Cascade Hollow in Tennessee.