House Of Lords 12 Year Old
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Lot number: 169-01578
Winning bid: £35
This is the distinctive square shaped bottling from House Of Lords, bottled by William Whiteley & Company.
William Whiteley & Co Ltd was best known for its House of Lords and King’s Ransom blends, though its founder was one of the whisky industry’s more colourful characters. The period of US Prohibition (1920-33) gave Whiteley a new opportunity, and he developed a lucrative relationship with mafia boss Frank Costello, smuggling his own blends of Scotch whisky into the States via the island of St Pierre, off the coast of Newfoundland.
Today only the now ultra-respectable Edradour distillery and the lavishly-packaged bottles of King’s Ransom 12-year-old and House of Lords 8 and 12 year-old from the 1970s and ’80s appear from time to time, serve as a reminder of William Whiteley and his dubious days in the Scotch whisky business.
House of Lords was only available in export markets until 1996 due to protests at its naming by the upper house of the British parliament.
Age: 12 Years Old
40% ABV / 70cl
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Please be advised there in a strong smell of tobacco and staining to this lot
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