May 2019 Auction

John Walker and Sons 30 Year Old Master Blenders Collection / Art Deco Era

This spectacular presentation is part of the John Walker and Sons premium releases from Johnnie Walker.

Part of the Master Blenders Collection, this 30 year old Scotch pays tribute to Sir Alexander Walker, former Master Blender and son of Johnnie himself.

This is the Art Deco Era release, and comes in an exquisite lock and key box with art deco detailing, and a crystal decanter.

One of 1438 bottles.

Released exclusively to Johnnie Walker House stores in the Asian market.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Gods of Wealth Collection 5 x 1 Litre

The \"Five Gods of Wealth\" in Chinese culture represent wisdom, vision, integrity, fortune, and luck.

Each bottle in this collection depicts a different god, engraved in 18k gold.

Produced to celebrate Lunar New Year, one of only 1000 sets.

This lot has a 7 bottle shipping fee.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Greg Norman

A very limited bottling of Blue Label, rarely seen at auction.

This bottle was created to endorse the Australian Golfer Greg Norman, the bottle has been printed with Greg Norman's signature and text rear.

Bottle code: AG680.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Casks Edition 75cl / Johnnie Walker House

A nicely illustrated bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label, bottled for the Asian market at 55.8%. 

John Jameson and Son 10 Year Old circa 1930s/40s / W A Scott

An old bottle of Jameson 10 year old Irish whiskey, bottled by W.A. Scott of O'Curry Street, Kilkee. There's a still a Scott's Bar in the same location today. 

The practice of merchant bottlings was common throughout Ireland and indeed, many of the most recognisable Irish whiskies today started out as such. Jameson in particular did not officially bottle their own whiskey until 1968, after the Irish Distillers merger with Powers and Cork Distillers. The then Dublin-based distillers offered their products only by the barrel, which is how this bottling came about.

Distilled at the closed Bow Street distillery which ceased production 1971 and now houses the Jameson visitor's centre. 

We estimate this bottle to be from around the 1950s, but it may be older.

No strength or capacity stated. 

John Jameson and Son 10 Year Old circa 1936 / A Millar & Co

An old bottle of Jameson 10 year old Irish whiskey, bottled by Adam Millar & Co. in what appears to have been around the 1930s, or possibly earlier. Adam Millar established a distillery at 10-13 Thomas Street in Dublin's Liberties in the 1890s, and despite competition from the much larger Roe distillery across the road, operated until the mid-20th century. The Dublin Civic Trust Thomas Street Study in 2001 however found that wine was being produced on the still these until the late 1970s. The Millars whiskey brand was revived by Cooley distillery in the 1980s.

The practice of merchant bottlings was common throughout Ireland and indeed, many of the most recognisable Irish whiskies today started out as such. Jameson in particular did not officially bottle their own whiskey until 1968, after the Irish Distillers merger with Powers and Cork Distillers. The then Dublin-based distillers offered their products only by the barrel, which is how this bottling came about.

Distilled at the closed Bow Street distillery which ceased production 1971 and now houses the Jameson visitor's centre. 

No strength or capacity stated. 

Jura 1976 Douglas Laing 40 Year Old / XOP

This is a Douglas Laing bottling of Jura, part of their Xtra Old Particular series. XOP is their ultra-premium range, launched in 2013 and reserved for casks considered the Laing \"family jewels.\"

Distilled in December 1976 and matured in refill barrel #11795.

Bottled in June 2017, this is bottle number 56 of 140. 

John Walker & Sons Private Collection 28 Year Old Midnight Blend 2018 Edition

This is the fifth and final edition of the John Walker & Sons Private Collection.

Created by Master Blender Jim Beveidge, this 28 year old blend is said to contain some of the rarest casks that the company has offer. 

Very tastefully packaged, this is one of 3,888 to be released. 

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Barcelona, Madrid & Rome Limited Editions 3 x 70cl

Three limited edition bottlings of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with an exclusive Barcelona, Rome and Madrid designs on the bottles and boxes.

Note that this lot will include a three bottle shipping fee. 

John Walker and Sons Odyssey

This is part of the John Walker and Sons ultra-premium range produced by Johnnie Walker.

The very high end of blending is based on the notes of Alexander Walker. 

Composed of three carefully selected single malts that have been married in European oak casks. The cleaver design of the crystal decanter moves along with the motion of the ocean and its 'swing' style box will ensure it cant fall over.

Jura 1967 Stillman's Dram 27 Year Old

A 27 year old Isle of Jura, bottled as part of The Stillman’s Dram series from Whyte & Mackay.

Season of Distillation 1967.

John Walker and Sons Odyssey

This is part of the John Walker and Sons ultra-premium range produced by Johnnie Walker.

The very high end of blending is based on the notes of Alexander Walker. 

Composed of three carefully selected single malts that have been married in European oak casks. The cleaver design of the crystal decanter moves along with the motion of the ocean and its 'swing' style box will ensure it cant fall over.

John Walker and Sons Odyssey

This is part of the John Walker and Sons ultra-premium range produced by Johnnie Walker.

The very high end of blending is based on the notes of Alexander Walker. 

Composed of three carefully selected single malts that have been married in European oak casks. The cleaver design of the crystal decanter moves along with the motion of the ocean and its 'swing' style box will ensure it cant fall over.

Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 Year Old 1930s / US Import

A very old bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. The bottle carries the royal warrant of the late King George V which we believe dates the bottle to between 1936 and 1939. The bottle is certainly no later than 1945, when the US tax strip was updated to includes the phrase 'Series 111' across the centre.

Imported to the US market by Canada Dry Ginger Ale, NY.

Uitvlugt 1997 Wild Parrot

Distilled at Uitvlugt distillery in Guyana in 1997, three years before it was closed and its stills and stock transferred to Diamond.

This was bottled from single cask #WP97489 by Hidden Spirits and Stefano Cremaschi for their Wild Parrot brand in 2018. 

One of 150 bottles.

Johnnie Walker Excelsior 75cl

Johnnie Walker Excelsior is an incredibly hard to find Johnnie Walker distilled in 1947 and released at around 50 years of age in 1997.

Johnnie Walker Green Label Taiwan Wonders Collection 4 x 70cl / with Glasses x 4

Between 2013 and 2017, Johnnie Walker Green Label was discontinued in almost all global markets - with the exception of Taiwan.  This limited edition set is known as the Taiwan Wonders Collection.

The collection features etched images presented on the rear of each bottle. 

Jade Mountain, Sun Moon Lake, Taroko Gorge and Ali Mountain are the wonders depicted. 

This lot has a 5 bottle shipping fee.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Edinburgh Limited Edition

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

Only 1,500 were made available.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare 2nd Edition​ / Port Ellen

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 second release built around malt from the legendary Port Ellen. Other \"Ghosts\" rearing their welcome heads from the annals of whisky history is grain from lost Carsebridge and Caledonian.

Given that Brora shut its doors in 1983, we're talking about whisky that was distilled at least 35 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.”​

John Jameson 12 Year Old 1970s

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!

Based on the glass stamp, this bottles dates to sometime in or just after 1974.

Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2009 Edition 75cl / US Import

A very well respected and rare Jameson, including some of their oldest and rarest vintages. Some of which is pot-still whisky matured in a Port Pipe. 

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

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

One of 3960 bottles. 

Johnnie Walker Blue Label London Limited Edition

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

Only 2,500 were made available.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Barcelona & Madrid Limited Editions / 2 x 70cl

Two limited edition bottlings of Johnnie Walker Blue Label with exclusive Barcelona and Madrid designs on the bottles and boxes.

Note that this lot will include a two bottle shipping fee. 

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.”​

Jack Daniel's Barrel Proof Single Barrel / Tennessee Squire

Jack Daniel's single barrel releases highlight what the world's best selling whiskey can do! 

This is a cask strength release and is one of 10 barrels selected by Tennessee Squire.,

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.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Chicago Limited Edition 75cl / US Import

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

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 its doors in 1983, we're 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.”​

James E Pepper '1776' 15 Year Old Straight Rye

James E. Pepper is an important figure in the history of US distilling, campaigning in 1890 to get the state of Kentucky to allow him to bottle his own whiskey at the distillery rather than to sell it by the barrel to distributors. He was also chief proponent of the Bottled in Bond Act in 1897, along with Colonel E.H Taylor Jr, and was the first to introduce the strip stamp that became a legal requirement on such products.

The original distillery was purchased by the Schenley company shortly before the repeal of Prohibition, who demolished it and built a new distillery under the James E. Pepper name. It operated until 1958 when it again fell silent before being rebuilt in 2017, filling its first barrel just before Christmas that year.

This was bottled at that new distillery, but the whiskey was distilled in December 1997 at the Seagram's plant in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Nowadays it is better known as MGP, and is famous for its high quality rye.

J.W. Dant 7 Year Old Bourbon 1960s

An old bottle of J.W. Dant sour mash bourbon.

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 distillations.

These days the Dant brand is produced at Heaven Hill. This 1960s bottling however was produced by Schenley, who acquired the Dant Gesthemane distillery in 1952, where this was distilled. Gesthemane closed in the early 1960s, so this was bottled by Schenley at their plant in Aladdin, PA.

Italian import.

Jack Daniel's '1954' Gold Medal Series 2005

The 6th release in Jack Daniel's medal release, which celebrates the awards they got, and why not?

The award in question this time was Jack's 1954 Gold Medal Star of Excellence from Institut International D'Alimentation in Brussels, Belgium.