Universal Whisky Experience, 1621 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, WY 82001
RABBIE BURNS AND H.M. THE QUEEN AT BONHAMS CHRISTMAS WHISKY SALE
Bottle of Black Bowmore 1964, estimated at £5,000-6,000; The Macallan Robert Burns Semiquincentenary (1759-2009), estimated at £1,500-1,800
Two bottles of Black Bowmore 1964 lead Bonhams annual Christmas Whisky sale in Edinburgh on 7 December. They are estimated at £5,000-6,000 each.
One bottle is from the Second Edition of the Black Bowmore 1964 that was bottled in 1994 and limited to 2000 bottles; the other comes from the Final Edition bottled in 1995 of which there were a total of 1812 bottles. Morrison’s Bowmore Distillery produced three editions from 1993-5.
As usual, the Christmas Whisky sale has some bottles with fascinating histories and associations including:
One of the most intriguing lots is the Bruichladdich Château d’Yquem Finish 20 year old (£750-850 for three bottles). The whisky has been aged for 15 years in a Bourbon cask and then finished in a cask that previously contained Chateau d’Yquem, the most famous Sauternes from one of the finest wine-producing areas in the world.
Bonhams whisky specialist, Martin Green, said, “Bonhams December whisky sale has something for everyone, from limited editions of cask-aged whiskies aimed at the dedicated collector to modestly priced malts that will help get the Christmas season off to a flying start.”
NOTES
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. Today, the auction house offers more sales than any of its rivals. The main salerooms are in London, New York and Hong Kong. Sales are also held in the UK in Knightsbridge and Edinburgh; in the US, in San Francisco and Los Angeles; in Europe, in Paris and Stuttgart and in Sydney, Australia. Bonhams also has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 25 countries offering sales advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full listing of forthcoming sales, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com.
The Whisky SaleBonhams, 22 Queen St. Edinburgh EH2Wednesday 7 December 2016, 11amSpecialist: Martin Green Bonhams’ Whisky Specialist
Our November Auction is now live, featuring over 2500 lots! If it’s getting chilly where you are then there are plenty of winter warmers to keep the cold at bay and if the sun is only just emerging for you, well why not pick up a bottle or two to celebrate the return of Summer? We have quite the array to choose from this month!
PAPPY VAN WINKLE FAMILY RESERVE SERIES
With Thanksgiving coming up it seems only right that we kick things off with one of America’s finest and most sought after exports! We have a superb range of the legendary Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve starring in this auction.
LARGIEMEANOCH 1967 12 YEAR OLD
An incredibly rare and very special Bowmore, bottled under the Largiemeanoch label for The Howgate Wine Co Ltd.
MACALLAN 40 YEAR OLD 2016 RELEASE
With a mere 500 bottles produced, this stunning 2016 release was only made available to a lucky few whose names were drawn from an online ballot!
A fantastic line-up of outstanding vintage whiskies from independent bottler Kingsbury, it’s impossible to pick just one highlight from this group!
BOOKER’S RYE 13 YEAR OLD LIMITED EDITION
The 2016 award winning limited release from the Jim Beam distillery! Jim Murray seemed to like it anyway but will it make the top of your list?
Sold exclusively by La Maison Du Whisky, the ‘Cocktail Series’ has firmly joined the ranks of Karuizawa’s many whiskies that receive international acclaim. We are delighted that the current auction features various bottles from this legendary series!
Auction runs Friday 18th November to Monday 28th November.
There is no registration fee, our commission structure is very competitive and we offer worldwide shipping. For our terms and conditions please click here.
Have bottles you’d like to sell? Our Special Extended Christmas Auction is just around the corner! Contact us now to find out more.
HIGHLAND PARK CELEBRATES SOLSTICE WITH MIDWINTER SOCIAL
OLD TRUMAN BREWERY | 24-25 NOVEMBER 2016
Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whisky, the ‘Orkney Single Malt with Viking Soul’ distributed by Maxxium UK, is taking over The Boiler House at London’s Old Truman Brewery for their Midwinter Social. Taking place over two evenings, the events will celebrate the longer nights in anticipation of Winter Solstice.
An important time of year in the Nordic calendar and at Highland Park’s home on Orkney, Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year and is typically celebrated with good friends, bonfires, music and dance.
The Highland Park Midwinter Social at The Boiler House on Brick Lane will bring to life the brand’s magnificent Viking heritage through the following:
The brand is extending its Solstice celebrations with activation in key trade accounts in and around Shoreditch including Bull in a China Shop, Cocktail Trading Co., The Culpeper, Translate and Looking Glass. Supporting bars will feature creative Highland Park serves and the top selling accounts will also have the chance to win a trip to the Highland Park distillery on Orkney.
Highland Park is also supporting the trade activation with a consumer photography competition on Instagram. Consumers will be encouraged to share a photo of themselves enjoying a Highland Park serve at participating bars using the hashtag #VikingSoul.
Thursday evening’s event will be broadcast to a global audience via Facebook live, and will feature live music sets from Kipps and Finnebassen, as well as a whisky tasting with global brand ambassador, Martin Markvardsen.
Mike MacKenzie, Highland Park brand manager said: “We are looking forward to celebrating Highland Park’s Viking heritage once again at our Midwinter Social, following the success of our Midsummer Social in June this year. With a bigger venue and more immersive experiences, the Midwinter Social is the perfect opportunity for guests to celebrate winter with friends. A big part of this celebration also involves our key trade accounts with Shoreditch bars featuring a range of creative Highland Park serves on their menus.”
Tickets for the Midwinter Social on Thursday 24 November and Friday 25 November can be booked here or visit http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/ and search ‘Highland Park’.
Notes
Please enjoy Highland Park responsibly, visit www.drinkaware.co.uk for the facts.
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About Highland Park
Established in 1798 on Orkney, Highland Park is one of the most remote Scotch whisky distilleries in the world. For over 200 years, the distillery has combined time old tradition and the very best craftsmanship to achieve perfection. Its range of 12, Dark Origins, 15, 18, 21, 25, 30 and 40 year old single malts is consistently acclaimed by connoisseurs and experts. Highland Park has won a string of prestigious awards across its portfolio. Most recently Highland Park ICE Edition was awarded 99 points and the Chairman’s Trophy at the Ultimate Beverage Challenge, while Highland Park 12, 15 and 18 Year Old were all awarded 96 points or above and the Tried and True Award at the Ultimate Beverage Challenge.
Wednesday, November 16
5PM -7 PM
Friday, November 18th
4 PM – 7 PM
Saturday, November 19th
11 AM – 4 PM
Free Whisky All Week!
Wednesday, November 16th 5-7PM:
FREE WHISKIES ALL WEEK!
World Whiskies
Join us Wednesday, November 16th from 5-7 for world whiskies, featuring Kavalan, Westland, Glenrothes, and Nika! A diverse tasting lineup presents a unique world whisky experience to our guests, with distillery representatives and whisky experts present for questions throughout.
Friday, November 18th 4-7PM:
Deanston. Bunnahabhain,
& Ledaig
Start your weekend with free whisky! From 4-7pm We’ll be showcasing a variety of Scotland’s whisky reigons with three very different distilleries – Bunnahabnahain, Deanston, and Tobermory! If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the home of whisky, this is the tasting for you!
Saturday, November 19th 11AM-4PM
Rare and Independent:
Chieftain’s & Chapter 7
This is a very special event; Independent bottlers Chieftan’s and Chapter 7 bring their award winning and extremely rare collections for one free tasting!
Chapter 7: Most independent bottlers go after the much-sought “big names” whereas Chapter 7™ acts as a spotlight for the lesser-known distillery casks with exceptional quality and character. They seek to offer novelty and exclusivity, presenting rare drams with stories as unique as their taste.
Chapter 7’s efforts have recently been awarded the Liquid Gold Award (94.5 Points) by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2016 for their Tormore 1995 Single Cask release (much to the surprise of Jim Murray himself!) and have netted consistently high ratings both from The Whisky Bible and international competitions.
Chieftan’s: Chieftan’s is known throughout the whisky world for producing highly reviewed bottlings from noteworthy distilleries in very limited batches – Each bottling is fit for a King, a Leader or in the Celtic world, a Chieftain.
Released at the peak of perfection, at up to 50 years old, each small batch release is bottled at natural colour and unchillfiltered to preserve the natural aromas of the whisky for a fuller flavour and smoother taste.
These are only a few of the many free tastings planned this month!
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Note: The SIA tasting previously scheduled for November 11th has been moved to November 25th. Hope to see you there!
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WHERE:
The Whisky Shop
360 Sutter Street
San Francisco
CA 94108
Tel: 415 989-1030
THREE NIGHTS OF WHISKY!
TICKET PACKAGES AVAILABLE
Thursday January 19th, 2017 – Evening
BC Distillers with Mark Gillespie and BC Distillers
British Columbia is rapidly becoming one of Canada’s centres of craft spirits excellence, with distillers beginning to push the boundaries of Canadian Whisky tradition. BC distillers are building on the province’s reputation for quality to produce spirits including Scotch-style single malts, and while the British Columbia spirits industry is still in its infancy, the future appears bright.
WhiskyCast’s Mark Gillespie will lead a panel discussion and whisky tasting with distillers from eight BC distilleries: Shelter Point, Dubh Glas, Victoria Distillers, Odd Society, Pemberton Distillery, The Liberty Distillery, Okanagan Spirits, and deVine Spirits. Each distillery will bring a unique whisky for this Grand Tasting, including experimental whiskies that may never be available for tasting again.
We’ll look at how recent legislation at the provincial level has made it easier for craft distillers to reach consumers, whether British Columbia’s unique “terroirs” make a difference, and whether “organic” production makes a difference in the final spirit (or just helps in marketing).
Friday January 19th, 2017 – Evening
The Dave Broom Craft Whiskies Grand Tasting
Corby’s craft range is one of the most highly awarded in the world and features; Pike Creek 10 Year Old, Lot 40 100% pot stilled Rye, Gooderham and Worts Four Grain and JP Wiser’s 18 Year Old. However, this year they will release uniquely rare expressions of each of these in highly allocated quantities. The driving principle behind this incredible range is simple; to create the finest collection of Canadian Whisky ever released. This will be the first public tasting of these expressions in the world. Renowned whisky writers and authors Davin de Kergommeaux and Dave Broom will be joined by Corby’s Master Blender Dr. Don Livermore as they discuss what sets Canadian Whisky apart as a category through the lens of these incredible whiskies.
With Dave Broom, Davin de Kergommeaux and Dr. Don Livermore
OR
The Beam Bowmore Grand Tasting
Bowmore, Islay Single Malt, with its peat smoke and Atlantic sea-salt brininess, every dram of Bowmore embodies the very essence of Islay in a glass. Islay malts are renowned for their peaty smokiness and Bowmore is no exception. We carefully smoke our malt in a peat-fired kiln, just as our ancestors did over 200 years ago. Nurtured in our legendary No.1 vaults, Bowmore Single Malt is widely acknowledged to be among the finest and most perfectly balanced in the world.
Hosted by Brand Ambassador, Marcio Ramos
Saturday January 20th, 2017 – Evening
The Consumer Tasting
7:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
The heart of the Festival is the Consumer Tasting being held in the Hotel Grand Pacific’s Pender Island and Vancouver Island Ballrooms featuring a myriad of distilleries and whiskies including Canadian whisky, Scottish single malts and blended whiskies, Irish whiskey, Japanese, Indian, French, Swedish, Australian whiskies and a variety of whisky & whiskey styles from the United States of America.
Each attendee is provided with an engraved Glencairn whisky nosing & tasting glass and an Whisky Advocate magazine as well as assorted product information from the presenters.
The Hotel Grand Pacific will be providing the best Hors d’Oeuvres from their award winning kitchen and Chefs using local ingredients including the very popular & elusive haggis tarts created especially for the Victoria Whisky Festival! Here you will be able to satisfy your whisky curiosity by sampling your choice of over 150 whiskies, the largest selection available for such an event in British Columbia.
$220
(Limited VIP Consumer Tasting tickets available for a premium).
Optional Distillery Tour Tickets $ 50 (Friday or Sunday Afternoon)
These tours are new to the festival!
Return transportation from the Hotel Grand Pacific is included.
First stop will begin in the Victoria Caledonian Distillery’s visitor’s centre, then past the grist mill where participants can taste some of the various strains of malted & un-malted barley, or other cereals that this craft brewer and distiller experiment with. Then on to the heart of the Brew & Still house through the smells of the mash tun & wash backs, past the gleaming swan necked Stills and up into the warehouse and bottling hall. Return back to the visitor centre for a wee dram from the distillery’s new make and two of the whiskies in the Macaloney Cask Selection series.
Second stop will be the deVine Distillery. At deVine Spirits, join Master Distiller Ken Winchester with his vintage German potstill. Then enjoy a guided tasting of new-make and barrel-aged whisky. deVine is a certified Organic farm, and an award-winning winery & farm distillery. Ken licensed the first distillery on Vancouver Island in 2007, and created the iconic Victoria Gin. deVine’s newly released Glen Saanich single malt whisky is made from locally-grown and malted barley, and mashed & distilled at the farm.”
Tickets available via info@victoriawhiskyfestival.com
THE WHISKY SHOW: OLD AND RARE – FEBRUARY 2017
THE WORLD’S GREATEST WHISKY BAR, FOR ONE WEEKEND ONLY…
11.30am-6.30pm, 18-19 February 2017 (last pour at 6.10pm) Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
For 2017, we are adding a new show to our line-up – The Whisky Show: Old and Rare. Taking place in February in central Glasgow and organised in association with whisky experts Angus MacRaild and Jonny McMillan, the show focuses exclusively on old and rare whiskies, bottled over the past century and available to purchase by the dram.
The show brings together some of the world’s rarest and most sought-after whiskies under one roof – it is the world’s best whisky bar, for one weekend only.
The Best Exhibitors Rather than distillers, exhibitors at The Whisky Show: Old and Rare are curators of great whisky – bars, shops, auctioneers, independent bottlers and collectors, who have sought out incredible whiskies and will open them for you at the show. They will be selling whiskies by the measure, giving you a wide choice of drams to try.
ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MASTERCLASSES Featuring experts in old and rare whisky, the show masterclasses are once-in-a-liftetime events. Combining expertise and knowledge with legendary whiskies, they are unlike anything else available at a whisky show anywhere in the world.
Friday Nov. 18th. 4-7PM:
Deanston. Bunnahabhain,& Ledaig
We’ll be showcasing a variety of Scotland’s whisky regions with three very different distilleries – Bunnahabnahain, Deanston, and Tobermory! Distillery representatives and whisky experts present for questions throughout. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the home of whisky, this is the tasting for you.
The Whisky Shop, 360 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 989 1030
Just Whisky November Auction Live!
A warm welcome to our 36th Auction! November 2016 see’s the USA with a new President-Elect. Whether you’re drowning your sorrows, or having a celebratory dram, you’ll find plenty to bid on this month including some brand-new releases …
Introducing The Macallan 40 Years Old
The hotly anticipated and balloted Macallan 40. One of only 500 bottles made available Worldwide.
New Releases from Arran
This month see’s us with two brand new releases from the Lochranza based distillery. Limited Edition whiskies from Arran are always hugely popular, and none more so than the White Stag release. The first edition has seen meteoric price rises due to the limited quality they were made available in.
This time round the whisky is a 20-year-old, from a single cask laid down in 1996 and selected by representatives of the White Stag members club Worldwide. Limited to only 525 bottles. This is a highly collectable release from Arran.
Check out all the auction entries below. Happy bidding!
November 19th, 11AM-4PM
Rare and Independent: Chieftain’s & Chapter 7
This is a very special event; Independent bottlers Chieftain’s and Chapter 7 bring their award winning and extremely rare collections for one free tasting!
The Whisky Shop, 360 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 989 1030
