Pillage 2007 14 Year Old Trilogy
Lot number: 301378
Winning bid: £110
During 2003, Lagavulin distillery worker Kevin Campbell and a team of charitable Ileachs rowed around the coastline of Islay, collecting malt whisky from each of the island's seven distilleries. The whisky was duly married in casks and bottled at Bruichladdich before being offered for sale via the internet. The ten-year-old Islay Pillaged Malt raised £25,000 for the RNLI and the Macmillan Cancer Relief Fund.
Encouraged by the great success of this venture, Campbell and fellow Lagavulin fundraiser Marjorie Orr set about going one better, and proceeded to turn the Islay Pillage into a Celtic Pillage in 2005 by including Jura and Bushmills distillery in Northern Ireland on their itinerary.I
n June 2007 a team of volunteers rowed and sailed to all of Islay's distilleries and to Jura, 'liberating' 40 litres of cask strength 12-year-old whisky from each distillery. They then headed the 20 miles from Bruichladdich to Antrim on the Irish skiff James Kelly, braving forced eight gales in the process. The boat was a replica of a 19th century fishing yawl and shared many similarities with the Viking longboats that would have plundered the shores of Scotland and Northern Ireland many centuries ago.
The 'pillaged' malt from each of the nine distilleries was subsequently vatted together and married at Lagavulin to create 500 bottles-worth of Celtic Pillage Malt. This was then bottled and labelled at Bruichladdich in February. The unique whisky was only available by bidding in a silent auction, with bids starting at £100 being accepted until the end of March. Money raised will be shared between the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice.
This bottle is from the 2007 Pillage, is a 14 year vatting of whiskies from Jura, Bunnhabhain, Caol Ila, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Bruichladdich and Bowmore. It's 70cl and bottled at 51.6% Bottle number 141of only 250. This collection is very very scarce and very, very collectible.
The bottle comes in a neat presentation box with pictures of those involved and a leaflet explaining how the Pillage went
We're indebted to Gavin D Smith and Tom Cannavan from Whisky-Pages.
http://www.whisky-pages.com/stories/pillage-malt.htm
Encouraged by the great success of this venture, Campbell and fellow Lagavulin fundraiser Marjorie Orr set about going one better, and proceeded to turn the Islay Pillage into a Celtic Pillage in 2005 by including Jura and Bushmills distillery in Northern Ireland on their itinerary.I
n June 2007 a team of volunteers rowed and sailed to all of Islay's distilleries and to Jura, 'liberating' 40 litres of cask strength 12-year-old whisky from each distillery. They then headed the 20 miles from Bruichladdich to Antrim on the Irish skiff James Kelly, braving forced eight gales in the process. The boat was a replica of a 19th century fishing yawl and shared many similarities with the Viking longboats that would have plundered the shores of Scotland and Northern Ireland many centuries ago.
The 'pillaged' malt from each of the nine distilleries was subsequently vatted together and married at Lagavulin to create 500 bottles-worth of Celtic Pillage Malt. This was then bottled and labelled at Bruichladdich in February. The unique whisky was only available by bidding in a silent auction, with bids starting at £100 being accepted until the end of March. Money raised will be shared between the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice.
This bottle is from the 2007 Pillage, is a 14 year vatting of whiskies from Jura, Bunnhabhain, Caol Ila, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Bruichladdich and Bowmore. It's 70cl and bottled at 51.6% Bottle number 141of only 250. This collection is very very scarce and very, very collectible.
The bottle comes in a neat presentation box with pictures of those involved and a leaflet explaining how the Pillage went
We're indebted to Gavin D Smith and Tom Cannavan from Whisky-Pages.
http://www.whisky-pages.com/stories/pillage-malt.htm
Featured in The 30th Auction, ended October 6, 2013
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