Just Whisky is live with its biggest ever auction. This summer sees a massive amount of interesting and rare bottles to bid on. With a huge selection of silent distillery bottlings, a great array Rare Malts, almost all the Easter Elchies, a bunch of Flora & Fauna, smattering of Karuizawa, Port Ellen, and Silent Stills as well as plenty of Limited Ardbeg’ s, Brora, Glenlivet Cellar Collection and many many more! We’re excited for the auction to go live on Friday 7^th August.

Let’s begin by examining some of the highlights…

Just some of the bottles featured in this month’s auction (From left to right: Macallan 18yo Gran Reserva, Springbank 12 yo 100° proof, Macallan Easter Elchies 2009, Karuizawa 30 yo ‘Samurai’ Cask 3139, Clynelish 17 yo Manager’s Dram, Brora 22 yo Rare Malts, Laphroaig 26 yo 1968 Hart Brothers, Glenlivet 1959 Cellar Collection).

What a fantastic array of bottles from the Rare Malts selection, including some real rarities like the Brora 22 Year Old.

Whiskies from silent distillery Brora distilled in 1972 have attained near mythical status. There are five Rare Malt Brora 1972’s and this particular version (58.7%) is the winner of whiskyfun.com expert Serge Valentin’s highest ever score, with 97 points.

A legendary dram and as usual from the Rare Malts series – very collectable indeed. The jewel in the crown of the Rare Malts series.

Of course there are a huge amount of more reasonably priced drinkers available at the auction, and we’ve been given a sneak peak of the bottles available – a fantastic selection to bid on. Bidding will end on Sunday 16th August at 8PM – so feel free to add it to your calendars!

A spectacular array of collectable bottles from the discontinued Easter Elchies range from Macallan. The range was infamous for its latter releases to prompt keen collectors to queue up from as early as 1am in the morning! Prices for these collectable bottles seem to keep rising year on year, and for the lucky owners they are some of the nicest looking bottles around for your collection.

With over 1,000 lots this is the biggest and best auction yet from Dunfermline based Just Whisky Auctions. We’re reminded they offer a collection service for your bottles and are currently scooping up bottles for their upcoming September auction. Sellers commission is capped at 6% including VAT and entry is completely free of charge.

Bidding ends from 8PM on Sunday 16^th August and you can visit their auction here: http://www.just-whisky.co.uk/

AUGUST TASTINGS

Steak & Whisky Tasting – 19 Greville Street – Mon 10 Aug  More >

Aberdeen Preview Tasting – Caledonian Thistle Hotel – Thu 20 Aug  More >

Staff Star Drams – The Vaults – Fri 21 Aug  More >

Carlisle Preview Tasting – The Hallmark Hotel – Fri 28 Aug  More >

FRINGE SHOWS AT 28 QUEEN STREET

At the Illusionists Table – More >

Scott Smith: Wonders at Dusk – More >

FREE ENTERTAINMENT AT THE VAULTS

Monday Night Drop-In: Islay Lovers Night >  Mon 10 Aug

Live Music with Rosie Blue >  Wed 19 Aug

Browse All Tastings >

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

WHISKY TOUR FOR AUSTRALIAN (& SOUTH AFRICAN) GUESTS, JULY/AUGUST 2015

We were happy to take our guests on tour with us up to Speyside, a very fast turn around needed, as they only contacted us two weeks ago, but – as usual, we performed well! With a meet and greet at Inverness airport on the Friday (11am), we set out immediately for Dufftown, lunch had been pre booked at Glenfiddich distillery. Whilst Liz and myself took it easy, they dived right into Cullen Skink and a main course! Not only the food, but a few drams (including a Monkey Shoulder) each were also on the menu, these in addition to the Innis & Gunn beer and 2 drams en route in our vehicle, a good start.

After lunch an introductory video, then shown around the distillery. THE SECRETS OF SOLERA During their visit to warehouse 8, they discovered what makes the 15 year old such an exceptional dram, then into the malt masters blending room: enjoy tasting a number of cask-strength samples. They also stepped into Malt Master Brian Kinsman’s role, preparing their own version of Glenfiddich 15 year old by combining different cask samples together. Two and a half hours later, we met them again (Liz and myself had been working in the restaurant the whole time, on our 2016 Spirit of Speyside tours and events). We drove the short distance to the Highlander, said hello (and a chat) to Tatsuya Minagawa the new owner we know from years back actually, settled down to more beer and whisky ! I did feel sorry for Liz, she was driving this tour so couldnee drink ! Felt sorry for myself also, a recent hospital case which curtailed my own drinking. From here we travelled to Lossiemouth, our hotel overlooked the Old Moray Golf Course, looking out across the Moray Firth. Ten minutes after check in, we all gathered at the bar, needless to say, our guests ended the evening around 12.45, a good first day!

Saturday saw us depart at 10am (sleep in, after a re designed second day last night at the bar) and arrived at Glen Moray distillery for a standard tour, followed by our own/GM tasting session, which went down really well ; GM 10yo Chardonnay, Classic Port Cask finish, Peated Classic with a bottle of Wolf beer ! The day changed again as it was so sunny ! Golf this afternoon, we persuaded them to come with us to Aberlour, lunch at the Mash Tun and then the Highland Games at Aberlour. Just as we left the Mash the heavens opened – literally. Another change, we took them back to Dufftown and a friend of mine, David gave them all kilts to try on, lots of fun and drams there ! The Fife Inn entertained us all after the kilts, before once again heading back to Lossie. A round of golf followed in the evening sunshine. Another long night at the bar!

Sunday was the final day, guess who slept in ? guess we changed plans again ? Aye to both. A quick tour around Lossie and the beaches, then dropped into Spynie Palace for a look around. Spynie was for five centuries the residence of the bishops of Moray, the ruin of Spynie Palace does survive remarkably intact. From here to Culloden Battlefield museum and finally Inverness for lunch – lamb shanks and beer/whisky. A 2.15 drop at Inverness airport saw our guests away. Liz and myself really enjoyed the craik and a fast brief ride around Speyside, more distilleries had been planned, but – due to guests ideas/requests, the weather and time zones, we did alter things quite a lot « on the hoof » !

Another mcleanscotland tour under our belt. We would like to thanks Adam, Ian, Wayne, Chris and Matt for touring with us and – trusting us !

Written by Paul McLean. www.mcleanscotland.com

AUGUST TASTINGS

August Outturn Preview Tasting – The Vaults – Thu 6 Aug  More >

New List Open Tasting – 19 Greville Street – Sat 8 Aug  More >

Steak & Whisky Tasting – 19 Greville Street – Mon 10 Aug  More >

Aberdeen Preview Tasting – Caledonian Thistle Hotel – Thu 20 Aug  More >

Staff Star Drams – The Vaults – Fri 21 Aug  More >

Carlisle Preview Tasting – The Hallmark Hotel – Fri 28 Aug  More >

FREE ENTERTAINMENT AT THE VAULTS

Live Music with Main Street Blues >  Wed 5 Aug

Monday Night Drop-In: Islay Lovers Night >  Mon 10 aug

Browse All Tastings >

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

JULY AUCTION ENDS TODAY!

The latest auction at whisky.auction ends tomorrow from 7.30pm BST, so if you haven’t looked at the wide range of whiskies and fine spirits available, don’t miss your chance – place your bids before it is too late.

• Balvenie 50 Years Old – currently leading the auction, with many Japanese whiskies hot on its heels
• The Macallan – from the 1950 handwritten label to the 1972 Fine and Rare
• we have a stellar line-up of American whiskey, with bottles of George T Stagg, William Larue Weller and Pappy Van Winkle – pick your favourite
• plenty of rare miniatures, including a sample bottle of Mortlach 70 Year Old
• don’t miss out on our selection of old bottles and everyday drinking whiskies.

These are the closing times for each category – a great way of simplifying your final bids:

• 7.30pm – Books, jugs, memorabilia and miniatures
• 7.40pm – American, blends, grains, Irish and other whisky 
• 7.50pm – Japanese
• 8.00pm – Islands
• 8.10pm – Lowland
• 8.20pm – Highland
• 8.30pm – Speyside
• 8.40pm – Campbeltown
• 8.50pm – Islay

Our shipping rates are very competitive, and for customers in the US, India and Russia, customs duty will be included in your delivery fee – your order will not be subject to further charges. Our next auction will start on Monday 31 August and we already have some special bottles ready, including sought-after bottles from Brora and The Macallan. If you have bottles to sell, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Hi folks.

A quick email to say that the 52nd auction will end this evening. For the benefit of our first-time bidders, this is how it works:

From 6pm UK time the software starts monitoring activity on the site, and at an unspecified time it will shut down the auction. This feature has been designed to beat sniper software.

Please note : The auction does not end at 6pm, only the end process begins then. In our experience it is some time after 8pm before the auction ends, so there is no need to rush to bid dead on 6pm

We hope you have enjoyed the auction.

Kind regards from Glasgow

The SWA Team

Our latest auction is now live, and will run until Tuesday 4 August, closing from 7.30pm BST.

You can now bid on your favourite bottles or simply add them to your Watch List and place your bid any time you like.

You can bid in two ways: either increase the highest bid by a fixed amount, or place your maximum bid straightaway – ideal if you can’t be online on the last day of our auction. Be the first to bid!

View our current auction

Get bidding, and good luck! The Whisky Auction team.

Midlands Whisky Festival

Friday 18 – Saturday 19 September 2015 We’re lining up some real treats for you for the 8th Midlands Whisky Festival: Award-winning World Whiskies from India, USA & Japan. First UK tasting of new Nikka Japanese Whisky range. Whiskies from Ireland, Wales and of course, Scotland! Laphroaig 200th Anniversary special drams Masterclasses from Colin Dunn, Stefanie Holt, Ian Buxton and others Great food, great atmosphere, great value!

Slàinte!

Our July auction is now live and ends on Monday 3^rd August 2015!

View July Auction

This is an incredible auction with 1,300 bottles available. We have a few highlights for you this month, starting with Johnnie Walker Director’s Blend 2013. A whisky that was only gifted to the upper echelons of Diageo. 

This moth we also have both a Killyloch 1967 and a Glen Flagler 1976, two single malts from the long closed Moffat distilling complex. When it comes to rare, closed distilleries, these are sure fire winners!

Bruichladdich have produced the most heavily peated whisky in the world… time and time again. This lot is an almost complete range of the legendary Bruichladdich Octomore available! 

The highlight of our world whiskies this month is the Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 year old. From the closed Michter distillery this has been described as one of the best bourbons ever. 

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Happy Bidding!

Aberlour, Chivas & Glenlivet Whisky Tasting 20th August 

Price: £20.00
Date: Thursday 20th August 2015
Time: 7:00PM
Location: N&P Cellars

Book Tickets Online

Phil Huckle from Pernod Ricard is coming to the store’s cellars on Thursday 20th August to present an evening of Scotch whisky!  Expect special drams from Aberlour, Chivas and the Glenlivet distilleries. Plenty of fun to be had at this one! For further info, email David Gardener or phone him on 01384 394518. Starts 7:00 pm

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