Welcome to our August Whisky Auction Highlights! There’s some absolutely phenomenal bottles coming under the hammer this month, with amazing old Ardbeg, Brora, Port Ellen, Springbank and Glenugie from back in the golden era, so we’d best crack on. Macallans Old & New New and newish modern era Macallans this month include the 2019 release of Macallan 25-year-old, the 2021 Macallan 18-year-old, and Macallan Folio Archival 6, plus the replicas Macallan 1851 Inspiration and Macallan 1861, and one of the early bottlings of Macallan 21-year-old Fine Oak. Older official Macallans in this month’s ..read more

Time for a quick run-through of this month’s whisky auction highlights! There’s some amazing stuff from Macallan, Rosebank, Ardbeg and many more, so we’d best get cracking. Monthly Macallans Some truly splendid Macallans in this month’s auction, with recent and relatively recent releases including several of this year’s Macallan Harmony Collection Fine Cacao, plus 2021’s Macallan Distil Your World  – New York, a small batch made in collaboration with swish NY bistro El Celler De Can Roca and bottled at a bracing 49.5%. There’s also the discontinued Macallan Ruby, the 2012 edition of the ..read more

Our May 2022 whisky auction is now underway, and there’s hundreds of top class bottles in this month’s sale from the likes of Macallan, Port Ellen, St Magdalene and Springbank to name just a few, so we’d better get cracking. Mighty Macallans There’s a great selection of modern Macallans in this month’s auction, with all three Macallan Concept editions up for grabs, plus Macallan Folio 2 Archival, the first edition of Macallan Classic Cut from 2017 and Macallan Genesis which appeared the following year. Golden age Macallans, meanwhile, include Macallan Private Eye, the glorious 80-proof (46 ..read more

Welcome to our April Auction Highlights! As ever, there’s plenty to get through, with top class drams from Macallan, Brora, Talisker and many more, so we’d best crack on. Bruichladdich 2005 Cask 345 – Held In Bond The headliner this month is something a little different: a cask of Bruichladdich 2005, still held in bond at the distillery on Islay!  Bruichladdich 2005 Cask 345 is a bourbon barrel and was regauged in February this year, when it held approximately 135 bulk litres at 60.4% – enough for around 192 x 70cl bottles at cask strength. We’ve tasted a sample from this cask, and it’s ..read more

Welcome to our March 2022 Whisky-Online Auction Highlights! There’s plenty to tell you about, with amazing drams from Brora, Port Ellen, Springbank, Royal Brackla and many more, so we’d best crack on. First off, though, if you haven’t read Monday’s post yet, check it out now – there’s a full run of United Distillers/Diageo Manager’s Dram bottles from 1988-2013 in this month’s auction! These marvellous whiskies are never available to the public and include many magnificent classics from distilleries including Clynelish, Glen Elgin, Blair Athol, Oban and Caol Ila – you can browse the full rundo ..read more

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have a full run of United Distillers/Diageo Manager’s Drams in this month’s auction! The vendor was a long-term UD/Diageo employee and the set runs from 1988-2013, with all the familiar classic bottlings in place. When the Manager’s Dram series began in the late 1980s, the concept was very simple, as all the best ideas are: each of United Distillers’ distillery managers would select their favourite cask from their distillery and all the managers would taste them together and decide which was the winner. The winning cask was then bottled, but was ..read more

Welcome to our February Whisky Auction highlights! It’s a bumper sale this month with some outrageous bottles from the likes of Laphroaig, Ben Nevis, Cragganmore and many more, so we’d better crack on! The Oxford Collection: Laphroaig And Much More The headline for this auction is the amazing collection of bottles we collected from an estate in Oxfordshire the week before the sale. We went down to collect several hundred unlabelled bottles of Ben Nevis and Cragganmore single malts, along with a couple of hundred unlabelled blended Scotch whiskies but, as we reported in our last blog, when we ..read more

One of the greatest joys of being in the auction business is the unexpected finds that crop up along the way, often when you least expect them.  These experiences are something that can never be taken for granted, which makes them all the sweeter when they arrive. The possibility always exists that the next stop we make on the road will deliver something extraordinary, and these unexpected moments are what keep auctioneering fun and make all our hard work worthwhile. In the past few years we’ve had the privilege of being part of some amazing finds, from the huge stash of Irish moonshine ..read more

Welcome to the highlights of our last whisky auction of 2021! And we’d like to wish all our readers and auction customers a very happy festive season and best wishes for 2022! There’s so much to get through – this is a special sale including hundreds of bottles from a remarkable collection amassed by a true connoisseur, with classic turn-of-the century Rare Malts and OB Bruichladdich, plus a treasure trove of mouthwatering indie bottlings from the likes of Port Ellen, Brora, Rosebank, Glenugie, Convalmore and many more, so we’d best get started. Major Macallans We have some absolute beauties ..read more

Welcome to our November Whisky Auction Highlights! There are some outstanding lots in this month’s sale, with some very old and incredibly rare bottles up for grabs from the likes of Ardbeg, Macallan, Ardmore, Clynelish and an official Benmore Distilleries bottling of Dallas Dhu (!), so we’d better crack on. Wonderful Old Macallan There’s some fabulous Macallan in this month’s sale. Recent bottlings including Macallan Folio Archival Series 2, Macallan Harmony Collection and Macallan 1991-2003 Elegancia, but the real action this month is with older bottlings from yesteryear. Highlights include ..read more