The Grand Whisky Auction is now LIVE!
There are 2200+ lots to browse and bid on this month with one of the highlights being this 2010 Bruichladdich Rivesaltes Hogshead.
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Our auction is almost at a close and finishes on Sunday the 18th at 8pm GMT so we thought we’d give you a final glimpse of fantastic whiskies from great distilleries. Double trouble with this amazing Rare Malts 1975 Brora is a real cracker, aged for 20 years before being bottled at cask strength with its natural colour. A 23-year-old Brora bottled by Chieftain’s makes up the duo, distilled in 1981 two years before the closure of the distillery and is one of only 846 bottles.
There seems to be a bit of a theme in our auction this month when it comes to the 1950’s, like this beautifully coloured Mortlach 1954. Bottled in 1998, again by Gordon and MacPhail, this eye-catching Speysider is sure to attract the attention of serious whisky folks.
Last up, two very serious whiskies, absolutely brimming with provenance and genuine quality, bottled once again by Gordon and MacPhail, for the highly revered Private Collection. The Caol Ila was distilled in 1965 before the Islay distillery was refurbished, aged for 36 years then bottled in 2002. The colour of the Old Pulteney 1973 is incredible, a snapshot of proper whisky from a superb Highland distillery, aged for 30 years before being bottled in 2003.
These are only a few of the bottles in our June auction, to view more gems visit clickwhiskyauctions.com. Register to bid. Remember, you’ve got to be in it to win it! Auction ends Sunday 18th!
Our 144th auction has now closed, achieving some fantastic hammer prices in the process. Here a few of our highlights from this month.
W & A Gilbey bottle from the wreck of the SS Politician
So it seems that history does in fact have a price, and that price is £11,500! We love to see bottles like this come through the auction as they highlight the crucial importance of whisky to Scottish material culture, showing how the mighty dram intersects with Scottish history at every turn.
Yamazaki 1984 25th Anniversary
Distilled almost four decades ago this tremendous example of Japanese craftsmanship was bottled to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Yamazaki brand. This particular milestone in Japanese distilling history does not come cheap however, with this lot reaching the princely sum of £13,000 at auction.
Laphroaig 1970 14 Year Old Cadenhead’s for SCOMA GMBH 75cl
We knew this was a great bottle as soon as we laid eyes on it, and it proved to be so achieving a thoroughly respectable £10,000 hammer price at auction. It’s not everyday you see a Laphroaig distilled over 50 years ago so kudos to the eventual buyer who has secured themselves a special bottling for sure.
Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Card Eight of Hearts
A longstanding favourite of those amongst us who collect Japanese whisky, the Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Card Series is a collection of bottles highly prized and regularly sought-after. We don’t see them all that often, indeed this was only the second sale of a Eight of Hearts through our auctions, so the final hammer price of £5,800 (the highest we’ve ever sold it for) seems a good deal for both buyer and seller!
With yet another successful auction behind us we now start the hard work of preparing next months auction. The 145th auction will be going live Friday the 30th of June and there is still time to get your bottles submitted with the deadline for bottles not until Friday the 16th of June. Have a good month everyone, we’ll be in touch again once the next auction is good to go.
We’re delighted to tell you about this month’s auction, there plenty to be excited about! Here at Click Whisky Auctions we know that our auction may not be the biggest but this month it’s certainly packing a punch, with some genuine heavyweight whiskies. First up, the Highland Park 1958 must be one of the most iconic releases by the Orkney distillery, bottled in 1998 and limited to only 665 bottles!
Next up this absolutely stunning Old Pulteney, aged for 40 years and limited to only 493 bottles, the oldest whisky from this popular Highland distillery to date. The hand-crafted, hand-blown bottle has exquisite artwork and is presented in packaging that exudes pure class, a rare addition to any collection
First released in 2022, the Springbank 30 Years Old was received to great acclaim in the whisky world. An annual release available in very limited numbers, so we are very excited to be able to offer the 2023 release in this month’s auction.
These are only a few of the bottles in our June auction, to view more gems visit clickwhiskyauctions.com. Register to bid. Remember, you’ve got to be in it to win it! Auction ends Sunday 18th!
RAREST BOTTLE OF GLEN GRANT WHISKY TO BE AUCTIONED AT BONHAMS SKINNER
A bottle of Gordon & MacPhail Glen Grant 1948 72 Years Old, estimated at $70,000 – 100,000.
Boston – Bonhams Skinner will present one of the rarest bottles of Scotch Whiskies, Gordon & MacPhail’s Glen Grant 1948 72-year-old, at its Rare Spirits sale from June 19 – 29. One of the oldest and greatest Scotch single malts of all time, this is the first time this bottling has been offered at auction in the United States. It is estimated at $70,000 – 100,000.
Built in 1839, Glen Grant is one of the most recognized distilleries in Speyside, the biggest whisky producing region in Scotland. Their 72-Year-Old whisky was distilled in 1948, matured in an American oak ex-Sherry cask, and bottled in 2020. The cask produced on 290 bottles and the whisky is housed in a hand cut Dartington Crystal decanter. It was awarded the World’s Finest Single Cask and the 2022 Scottish Single Malt Whisky of the Year.
A three-bottle set of Brora Triptych single malt Scotch Whisky, estimated at $25,000 – 35,000.
Additional highlights of the sale:
Sale: Rare Spirits Location: Boston Date: June 19 – 29
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest and most renowned auctioneers, offering fine art and collectables, collectors’ cars and a luxury division, which includes jewellery, designer fashion, watches, wine, and whisky. In 2021 and 2022, Bonhams made a number of important acquisitions which form the wider Bonhams network. These include: Bukowskis, Bruun Rasmussen, Bonhams Skinner, and Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr.
There are 14 salerooms around the globe: UK: New Bond Street, London; Knightsbridge, London; Edinburgh. US: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Marlborough. Hong Kong: Admiralty. France: Avenue Hoche, Paris; Rue de la Paix, Paris. Belgium: Brussels; Denmark: Copenhagen. Sweden: Stockholm and Australia: Sydney.
With a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 22 countries, Bonhams offers advice and valuation services in 60+ specialist areas.
In 2022, Bonhams held a number of important auctions and offered landmark single-owner collections, including the white glove sales of Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, Sir Terence Conran: The Contents of Barton Court, Personal Property of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and The Robert & Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting. Other notable single-owner sales included Style and Substance: The Collection of George and Charlotte Shultz and The Claude de Marteau Collection.
Top lots for 2022 included a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder (Sold for US$4,185,000), a pair of blue and white octagonal candlesticks (Sold for HK$30,453,00/ US$3,911,913), La femme en rouge au fond bleu by Chaïm Soutine (Sold for £1,842,300/ US$2,236,940), and a rare emerald and diamond Cartier bracelet (Sold for US$3,240,375).
More information here.
For a full list of forthcoming auctions, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com
The Bonhams Network
Bukowskis
Established in 1870, Bukowskis offers fine art and collectables from its saleroom in Stockholm as well as online. In 2021, it sold 11 of the 15 most valuable artworks in the Swedish market – achieving the highest price for a Swedish artwork ever sold at auction – while their innovative digital presence attracts more than one million users every month.
Bruun Rasmussen
From its Copenhagen saleroom and online, Bruun Rasmussen sells more than 75,000 lots each year across categories from furniture, paintings and modern design to silver, wine and collector’s items such as books, arms and armour, stamps and coins.
Bonhams Skinner
Renowned New England auction house Bonhams Skinner holds some 80 auctions a year in 20 collecting categories – including Americana, fine art, collectables and wine, and ranging from fine violins to contemporary paintings – at its salerooms in Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts, as well as on its highly effective digital platform for online sales.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr
Established in 1973, Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr is famous throughout the auction world for its high-profile single-owner sales. With salerooms in Paris and Brussels, it holds auctions in more than a dozen categories, including fine art, haute couture, Asian art, collectable cars, jewellery, watches and more.
May 2023 Auction // 26.05.23 –05.06.23
Our May Auction. Featuring over 7,500 rare whiskies and fine spirits, this is a unique opportunity to bid on some of the world’s most sought-after bottles.
This month we feature an array of amazing bottles, from an extensive collection of the Ichiro’s Malt ‘Card’ Series bottlings to stunning expressions of old & modern Glendronach, and some incredibly rare American whiskeys, some available at online auction for the very first time!
Whisky Investors Charity Auction: We’re delighted to support the Whisky Investors in raising funds for those affected by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey & Syria in our May auction. Read more here and please bid generously!
Bid on 35 lots from the legendary Ichiro’s Malt ‘Card’ series.
Want to learn more about the series? Read our complete guide to the series here.
Over 800 lots of rare American Whiskey, including the near-mythical D.H. Cromwell 15 Year Old & Boone’s Knoll 1974 16 Year Old
Discover a collection of legendary 1960s single malt Scotch
150+ Highland Park lots, including rare 1960s Cadenhead’s bottlings.
Read our Complete Guide to Highland Park and our exclusive interview with Olivier Humbrecht, Highland Park collector.
Sensational independent releases from James MacArthur
Whisky & Rum Investors Charity Auction in aid of DEC Turkey-Syria Appeal
Charity lots include a selection of bottles signed by master distillers at popular distilleries, a rare 1970s Glenfarclas 8-Year-Old and a Duty Paid Sample bottling of Springbank. There is also a very special 22-Year-Old Glenfiddich selected by Brian Kinsman, limited to just 36 bottles. Read more here and please bid generously!
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The sun is finally shining here in Glasgow and our glorious (if brief) summer is upon us, and to celebrate why not buy a bottle of something special from our now live 144th auction! It’s a very healthy auction this month with well over 7000 lots of fantastic drams to choose from, whether that be a top-shelf beauty or a summer drinker we’ve got the lot. Here are a few special bottles from this month’s offerings to check out.
W & A Gilbey from the Wreck of the SS Politician
We often say bottles are ‘historic’ or ‘legendary’ but in the case of the W & A Gilbey from the Wreck of the SS Politician we really mean it. The inspiration for the famed Ealing comedy Whisky Galore from 1949, The SS Politician was a cargo ship bound for Jamaica which ran aground off the coast of Eriskay in 1941. This bottle was salvaged by a diver from the slumbering wreck and is accompanied by a letter, magazine article and USB stick full of research documenting the bottle’s journey from the seabed back into circulation. A truly one-of-a-kind lot.
Macallan 1950 Exceptional Cask #13 2018 Release
Next up is a bottle of unmistakable quality, the Macallan 1950 Exceptional Cask #13 2018 Release. Distilled over seven decades ago by the Speyside giant, Macallan, this tremendous liquid was then aged for a jaw-dropping 67 years in an American Oak 1st Fill Sherry Butt. One of only 336 bottles released this dram comes in at hugely respectable ABV of 53.4%, impressive given its long slumber in oak. This is your chance to own by far the most sought-after bottle in the Exceptional Cask series.
Yamazaki 1990 ‘The Cask’ Sherry Butt
Japanese whisky has long been growing in popularity amongst consumers and investors impressed by its impeccable production, smooth flavours and robust value. And this Yamazaki 1990 ‘The Cask’ Sherry Butt certainly ticks all the boxes. Distilled in 1990 and bottled in 2008, this delicious looking dram is one of only 471 bottles released and weighs in at a rather hefty cask strength of 60% ABV. If you haven’t experienced Japanese whisky at its finest this would be a great place to start.
Laphroaig 1960 Vintage Reserve
Finally, we have an absolute corker from Islay (the undisputed heartland of peaty whisky) the Laphroaig 1960 Vintage Reserve. Distilled at the start of the swinging sixties and bottled in 2001 at the birth of the new millennium, this is a rare example of a very old Laphroaig. After spending four decades ageing in wood this dram is described by Laphroaig as being “surprisingly smooth and gentle” while still packing that peaty punch so admired by their legions of aficionados worldwide.There are literally thousands more fantastic bottles just waiting to be discovered in this month’s auction, so now is the time to get scrolling through them and picking your favourites. Best of luck to all and remember…………don’t lose your bottle.
Our June 2023 collection schedule has now been finalised.
Please click HERE for the list of dates, locations and to register your interest in this service. The deadline for collection requests is 12noon on Monday 12th June 2023.
Home collections are available for those customers sending 10+ bottles or bottles to the value of £1000. Unfortunately this service is not available in London or to those customer who live within 10 miles of a collection point.
Collections are limited and offered on a first come first served basis.
It is essential that a submission sheet is completed, you can do so under the selling section on your ‘My SWA’ page.
It would be appreciated if bottles could be packed for uplift with your name clearly marked on the front of the box.
A winner in our auction? We are now offering a delivery service to customers who are dropping bottles off for a future auction. This service is charged at £12 (inc VAT), optional loss and breakage cover is available.
Our May Auction ENDS TONIGHT!
Auction closes from 8pm (BST) Tuesday 30th May, 2023
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Drop-off Appointments
We are not running a collection on Islay this year during the Whisky Festival, but we will be opening on Saturday the 3rd of June between 11am and 3pm for anyone wanting to drop off bottles.
Drop-offs will be strictly by appointment only, so if you are wanting to submit any of the bottles you’ve acquired at the Festival then log into your SWA account and book an appointment now.
For everyone going to Islay next week, we hope you have a great time (and the queues aren’t too bad!). Any bottles submitted will be entered into the 145th auction which goes live on Friday the 30th of June, unless otherwise specified.
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