The 181st Auction

If you can tear yourself away from the superb spectacle that is the World Cup (slightly less hard for us Scotland fans) then you might like to marvel instead at the thousands upon thousands of fantastic drams in our now live 181st auction!  Fear not though if you want get back to the football for we have picked out a few choice lots to whet your appetite and ease your scrolling burden as you build your watchlist.

This solid looking specimen is the terrific Ledaig 42 Year Old Dusgadh.  The peated spirit in this release is some of the last to come out of the distillery before the stills were replaced in 1996. ‘Dusgadh’ is Gaelic for ‘awakening’ and each bottle comes with a memento card made from the copper from the now retired stills this spirit came from.  A little piece of history as well as a delicious dram from a highly reputable distillery

The stuff of legend this next one, here we have the Glengoyne Tea Pot Dram Batch #1.  As the story goes the Glengoyne workers were given three large drams of 1st fill sherry whisky a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner (nice work if you can get it).  There was a large tea pot in the break room used as a receptacle for any ‘unwanted’ drams, which would be thoroughly drained by the more seasoned distillery workers throughout the day.  The Teapot Dram was created to encapsulate those days and consists of five first fill sherry casks between the ages of nine and 11 years old.

Next is a very well-aged whisky from a now silent distillery which had a legitimate claim to being the oldest licensed distillery in Scotland, though ‘licensed’ is very much the key word here, this is the Littlemill 1989 30 Year Old Artist #13 La Maison du Whisky.  This excellent example of lowland style whisky has been bottled by French whisky specialists La Maison du Whisky as part of their Artist series.

Finally we have a one-off bottle from one of Scotland’s most popular distilleries, this is the Glenfarclas 40 Year Old for Burns Night 2023 Master of Malt.  A genuine rarity this one since it was bottled specifically for Master of Malts Burns Night celebrations in 2023 and as such is a 1 of 1 release.  As if the fact it was a Glenfarclas 40 year old wasn’t enough, a thoroughly delicious dram we can all agree, it also comes with that inimitable sheen of exclusivity!

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.