The 169th Auction

Welcome one and all to our now live 169th auction!  We have thousands of tremendous bottlings to choose from this month sourced from every corner of the globe.  We have some particularly old vintages in this month as well as a wide selection of new releases so wherever your collecting (or drinking) interests lie, we’ve got you covered.  So, without further ado here are a few highlights to get your monthly whisky journey started.

First up we have a particularly delicious looking dram from a respected Indie bottler, this is the Springbank 1964 32 Year Old Adelphi.  Given the popularity of Springbank in general indie bottlings such as this one offer the opportunity to acquire an older Springbank without breaking the bank.  And boy does this one look good.  Distilled in 1964 and aged for over three decades before bottling it’s obvious from the rich dark colour that this dram has spent much of its slumber in a sherry cask.

Next a small skip over the water from Campbeltown to Islay and we have the Port Ellen 1979 40 Year Old 9 Rogue Casks.  After the closure of Port Ellen in 1983 stocks of the whisky became far rarer and more appealing to collectors, so you may have a fight on your hands if you want to snap this one up.  Now that Port Ellen has reopened, we may see even greater demand for these older iterations going forward so this could be the ideal time to add this bad boy to your collection.

Another ageing beauty from a respected indie bottler this is the Glen Grant 1952 60 Year Old The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Gordon & MacPhail.  To honour the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee (1952 - 2012) Gordon & MacPhail selected a sixty-year-old Glen Grant scotch from a single first fill Oloroso sherry cask.  The decanter and Swarovski crystal stopper have been designed by Glencairn Crystal, and each is engraved with a unique number as well as a sterling silver collar around the bottle neck. The box is made from Scottish Elm, felled a short distance from Holyrood House, the Queen’s official Scottish residence and lined with purple Harris Tweed.  One of a miniscule 85 bottles released this is a bona fide rarity.

And finally, we’ve saved the oldest for last, this is the E. Normandin & Co Fine Grande Champagne Cognac 1858 Old Private Stock.  This staggeringly old cognac was produced in 1858 and has survived remarkably well all things considered.  This bottle represents one of the most intriguing aspects about vintage drinks collecting, and that is the intersection between history, material culture and sweet, sweet booze.  It is no stretch to say this cognac offers the buyer the chance to travel through time and taste a beverage that was produced a frankly ridiculous 167 years ago.

If these beauties are a tad out of your price range then fear not for we have an enormous selection of drams to suit every budget on offer this month, so now is the time to delve into this month’s offerings and start building that watchlist.  

Best of luck to everyone in the auction, and as always………..don’t lose your bottle.