Glenfarclas 1953 58 Year Old Mini 5cl & Karuizawa 1964 48 Year Old Mini 5cl
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Lot number: 083-1584
Winning bid: £1,650
Karuizawa
This is the highly sought after Karuizawa 1964. This extremely rare whisky has been in a 400 litre Sherry butt for just over 48 years before being bottled. At the time, this was the oldest release from this cult distillery with just 143 bottles from the cask.
The presentation is absolutely top-notch: a bespoke, heavyweight version of the traditional Karuizawa bottle is housed in a beautiful wooden box with a front made of Polish black fossil oak with the characters for “Karuizawa” engraved in it. The wood is hundreds of years old and has been recovered from ancient Polish swamps – this is a reference to the last character in the name “Karuizawa”, which means “swamp”.
Distilled: 01.09.1964
Bottled: 24.12.2012
Age: 48 Years Old
Cask Type: Sherry Cask
Cask Number: 3603
57.7% ABV / 5cl
Glenfarclas
Still in family hands since it was founded, the Glenfarclas Distillery is one of Speyside's independent whisky producers. The Grant family has been running Glenfarclas since 1860, producing an individual Speyside malt that many whisky enthusiasts number as one of their favourites. The water source is melt water from the slopes of Ben Rinnes which runs through granite and heather before reaching Glenfarclas (meaning 'the valley of green grass'). With a long history of bottlings stretching back to the early 20th Century, both proprietary and independent bottlings are much sought after.
Distilled: 20.11.1953
Bottled: 13.02.2012
Age: 58 Years Old
Cask Type: 1st Fill Sherry Butt
Cask Number: 1674
47.2% ABV / 5cl
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