The 174th Auction

Welcome, willkommen and bienvenue one and all to our now live 174th auction!  We have a tremendous array of drams available this month, a bevy of beauties if you will, including a rather excellent ‘buy-it-now’ option.  With so much to choose from we thought we’d give you a leg up and highlight a few interesting bottles to get your watchlist moving.

Our first highlight is something you really won’t want to miss, particularly for collectors of Japanese whisky, this is the Hakushu ‘First Class’ for Moegi no Mura.  This vanishingly rare Hakushu was bottled in 2024 in collaboration with the nearby Moegi Village (Moegi no Mura) tourist complex, and is one of only 4 bottles made available for public sale!  Bottled at 51% this incredibly exclusive dram is a marriage of five Hakushu vintages from 1977, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 2006.  We are unlikely to see to see this up for sale again anytime soon so if this one catches your eye you might need to act fast.

Next up we have not one but two incredible bottles from a Speyside behemoth, the Glenfiddich 1958 Private Vintage Single Cask #8642 and Glenfiddich 1959 Private Vintage Single Cask #3934.  This really was the distillery that started the whole single malt boom and these two drams distilled at the tail end of the 1950’s are a terrific example of why this distillery is so revered. Both bottled in 2006 these are whiskies of the absolute highest quality with an understated elegance of design rarely matched in the whisky world.

Every month in our highlights there has to be the obligatory ‘bucket list drinker’, and this month that honour goes to this Springbank 1967 28 Year Old 75cl.  Pungent, oily and marvellously delicious older Springbanks have attained near mythical status among many serious whisky aficionados over the years.  Distilled in 1967 this rich-looking liquid then spent the best part of three decades ageing before being wrapped up in this classy and elegant little bottle you see before you.

And finally, we have a bottle of something special available as a ‘Buy-It-Now’ option this month, this is the Highland Park 2003 22 Year Old Integrity Malts. Integrity Malts is an independent whisky bottler founded in 2024 by two whisky enthusiasts united by a shared obsession with authenticity, flavour, and honesty in whisky making.  They only release whisky that is non-chill filtered, bottled at natural cask strength, and without artificial colouring, just as nature intended! This a finely balanced dram starts with a rich heavy punch of stone fruit which develops into a sweet caramel finish with just a slight hint of peat smoke.  We have 116 bottles available, so fill your boots.

As always 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.