October 2018 Auction

Teeling Chestnut Cask Finish / Distillery Exclusive

This is a small batch whiskey was finished in chestnut casks! Crazy.

This exclusive release is only available at Teeling distillery.

Teeling was the first whiskey distillery to open in Dublin for 125 years when it was established in 2015. The distillery bottled its first whiskey in 2018, the liquid in this bottle however would have been produced at their former distillery, Cooley.

Timorous Beastie 40 Year Old

A very well-aged Highland blended malt, bottled at natural cask strength.

Produced by Douglas Laing and Co Ltd.

This is one of 1080 bottles. 

Eagle Rare 10 Year Old 1980s

An old 1980s bottling of Eagle Rare for the Italian market. This was distilled and bottled by Seagram's at the Four Roses distillery (labelled using its historic Old Prentice name).

The Eagle Rare brand nowadays is produced at Buffalo Trace after it was sold to the Sazerac company a few years after this was bottled.

Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon / Memorial Bottling

This whisky is named after the legendary Elmer T. Lee (1919-2013), who was hired in 1949 by Col. Albert B. Blanton to work at Buffalo Trace (Named George T. Stagg Distillery at the time).  

Starting from the bottom he worked his way up to Master Distiller before retiring in 1985, he passed away in 2013 aged 93. This bottle was released in 2014 to memorialise him. At the time of his death, Lee was one of only two living Master Distillers to have a bourbon named after them.

Taketsuru 21 Year Old Pure Malt 75cl / US Import

Released by Nikka, this range of blended malts is named after their founder and a key player in the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru 21 year old is highly acclaimed and has received many awards.

Teaninich 1973 Rare Malt 23 Year Old / 57.1%

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.

Distilled in 1973 and matured for 23 years. 

Bottle number 2989.

Thomas H Handy Sazerac 2016 Release

Part of Buffalo Trace's annual antique collection. Bottled at a hot 63.1% alcohol, they do get higher strengths than this but it's still impressive!

The 2011 release won Jim Murray's Whisky of the Year. 

Buffalo Trace's Antique Collection celebrates various historic bourbon brands and figures. The Thomas H. Handy rye is named after the company's founder, and features an image of the eponymous Sazerac Coffee House where everything started on the bottle.

Teaninich 1983 SMWS 30 Year Old 59.50

Distilled in 1983, this 30 year old Teaninich has matured in a single refill Bourbon Hogshead.

\"Comfortable in the Chesterfield\"

One of only 274 bottles.

English Whisky Co Founders Cellar Final Signature 2 x 70cl

This super premium release includes two bottles of stock released from the Founder's Cellar. One bottle was distilled in 2006 and aged in single rum cask #0041 (55.1%) and the other distilled in 2007, a peated spirit aged in single sherry cask #0842 (55.7%).

These two casks were the last to be 'bottled by kind permission of James Nelstrop' before he tragically passes and were his favourites.

A real must have for all English Whisky Co fanatics out there. 

This lot has a 4 bottle shipping fee.

Tamdhu 8 Year Old 1970s

A 1970s release of 8 year old Tamdhu. 

Tomatin 1988 Single Cask 26 Year Old

A rich looking Tomatin single cask bottling.

Single Oloroso sherry butt 950378 was filled on the 24th November 1988 and aged 26 years before bottling on the 15th January 2015.

This 'sherry masterpiece' was produced for the Taiwanese market.

Bottle 111 of 402.

Taketsuru 17 Year Old Pure Malt / Wooden Presentation​

Released by Nikka, this range of blended malts is named after Nikka's founder and a key member of the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru 17 year old is highly acclaimed and has received many awards.

This 2018 release is presented in a limited edition wooden presentation box.

La Maison du Whisky import.

Tullibardine 1993 Douglas Laing 25 Year Old / XOP

Distilled in March 1993 and bottled in June 2018 by Douglas Laing as part of their XOP range.  

Matured in a refill hogshead, this is bottle number 188 of 250. 

Talisker 25 Year Old 2014 Release

Released within Diageo's super-premium annual releases, Talisker 25 year old has been bottled a number of times. This particular bottle is from the 2014 release.

Bottle number 3438 of 6000. 

Taketsuru 17 Year Old Pure Malt / Wooden Presentation​

Released by Nikka, this range of blended malts is named after Nikka's founder and a key member of the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru 17 year old is highly acclaimed and has received many awards.

This 2018 release is presented in a limited edition wooden presentation box.

La Maison du Whisky import.

Taketsuru 17 Year Old Pure Malt / Wooden Presentation​

Released by Nikka, this range of blended malts is named after Nikka's founder and a key member of the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru 17 year old is highly acclaimed and has received many awards.

This 2018 release is presented in a limited edition wooden presentation box.

La Maison du Whisky import.

Teeling 14 Year Old The Revival Volume 3 / Pineau des Charentes Finish

To celebrate the introduction of Whiskey distillation to Dublin, the Teeling family produced a number of commemorative bottlings.

This 14 year old was distilled at the Teeling family's formerly-owned Cooley distillery and is the third instalment in the Revival series. It has been finished in Pineau des Charentes barrels, a French grape juice wine, fortified with Cognac eau-de-vie.

This was released in 2017, a year before the Teeling distillery's inaugural whiskey was launched by your truly.

One of 10,000 bottles.

Teaninich 10 Year Old Flora and Fauna / Wooden Box

A rare bottling from the Flora and Fauna series.

Taketsuru 17 Year Old Pure Malt / Wooden Presentation​

Released by Nikka, this range of blended malts is named after Nikka's founder and a key member of the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru 17 year old is highly acclaimed and has received many awards.

This 2018 release is presented in a limited edition wooden presentation box.

La Maison du Whisky import.

Taketsuru 17 Year Old Pure Malt / Wooden Presentation​

Released by Nikka, this range of blended malts is named after Nikka's founder and a key member of the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru.

Taketsuru 17 year old is highly acclaimed and has received many awards.

This 2018 release is presented in a limited edition wooden presentation box.

La Maison du Whisky import.

Tomintoul 1967 18 Year Old

​An older bottle of Tomintoul.

Bottled by A.B.C Ltd, Ireland. Technically not Scotch, as it was not bottled in Scotland. Imported in-cask to Ireland in 1967 and bottled in 1985.

Talisker 25 Year Old 2014 Release

Released within Diageo's super-premium annual releases, Talisker 25 year old has been bottled a number of times. This particular bottle is from the 2014 release.

Bottle number 3475 of 6000. 

Exclusive Blend 1980 Creative Whisky Co 35 Year Old ​

Old Speyside and Highland Malts blended with Grain whiskies, all of which have been matured in Ex-sherry casks. 

Do you want to prove blends can be as good as single malts? Here is your chance! 

Teeling 21 Year Old Silver Bottling Vintage Reserve

A 21 year old single malt whisky bottled by Teeling from batch number #5 of their Silver Bottling releases.

Date bottled: 21st August 2015.

Batch #5, bottle number 2557.

The Teeling distillery opened in 2015. This whiskey was likely distilled at Cooley, which the Teeling family formerly owned.

Tamdhu 8 Year Old 1970s

A 1970s release of 8 year old Tamdhu. 

Bottled for the European export market.

Taketsuru 17 Year Old & Suntory Pure Malt 7 Year Old Miniature x 2

Two fantastic old Japanese miniatures. A 17 year old Taketsuru blend from Nikka, and a 7 year old Yamazaki from Suntory.

Teaninich 1983 SMWS 16 Year Old 59.18

Distilled in 1983, this 16 year old Teaninich was bottled in June 2000 by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Tamdhu 1987 SMWS 10 Year Old 8.21

A Tamdhu from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

Distilled December 1987 and bottled May 1998

Tamdhu 1986 SMWS 10 Year Old 8.14

'Well formed with sugar puffs'

Distilled November 1986 and bottled September 1997

Elijah Craig 18 Year Old Single Barrel 2017

Elijah Craig is one of the flagship brands produced by Heaven Hill, named after an 18th century pastor, often cited (although probably incorrectly) as the first man to distil bourbon in the US.

This is an 18 year old and was matured in a single new charred oak barrel.

Bottled on the 7th March 2017 from barrel #4347.

At 18 years old, this barrel would have been distilled in 1999, making it either some of the first bourbon produced by Heaven Hill at Bernheim when they moved in that year, or one of the barrels produced on the still they rented at Jim Beam and Brown-Forman between then and 1996 when their Bardstown distillery was lost in a fire.

Elijah Craig 1997 Single Barrel 18 Year Old

Elijah Craig is one of the flagship brands produced by Heaven Hill, named after an 18th century pastor, often cited (although probably incorrectly) as the first man to distil bourbon in the US.

This is a 18 year old and was matured in a single new charred oak barrel.

Distilled on 16th of September 1997 and filled into barrel #4138.

Interestingly, when this was distilled Heaven Hill were not in possession of a distillery. Their historic home in Bardstown was lost in a fire in 1996 and they did purchase Bernheim from United Distillers until 1999. In this intervening period, they continued to produce their own recipe bourbon by renting stills at neighbouring distilleries, chiefly Brown-Forman and Jim Beam.

Tullamore Dew Heritage

Now owned by William Grant and Sons, Tullamore Dew is a popular Irish Whiskey.

This limited edition version was matured in Spanish and American oak casks, and produced at New Midleton distillery.