Click Whisky Auctions, based in Elgin, Moray, on the North Coast of Scotland, has today gone live with their November 2023 online auction. Since opening its doors at the end of 2022, the company has held monthly auctions which have included hard-to-find whiskies such as an Ardbeg 1975 Limited Edition, which sold for £575 in January 2023, and a bottle of Highland Park 1958 that sold for £4,300 in June 2023.
This month, some of the highlights from the online auction’s lots include:
1968 Talisker by Berry Bros and Rudd, bottled in 1984
Talisker is a distillery built in 1830 on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and is today the oldest distillery still in operation in the Islands region. In 1960, the distillery was rebuilt after a fire that started in the stillhouse destroyed the entire building. Afterwards, five exact replicas of the original stills were constructed to preserve the original Talisker flavour, which is the period in which this particular bottle of 1968 Talisker was first created.
In 1972, the stills were converted to steam and the distillery malting floor demolished, meaning this particular bottle is from a batch of Talisker’s older methods of production but not their original. Berry Bros and Rudd, the wine and spirits merchant who are still in operation today, bottled this particular batch in 1984 but not clear from research how many bottles were made available at the time.
1968 Macallan 18-Year-Old
The 1968 Macallan 18-Year-Old is a highly sought-after single-malt that was matured entirely in sherry oak casks. The first-ever Macallan 18-year-old release happened in 1984 when the company bottled a batch of their 1965 produce, making this 1968 expression among the earliest still in existence of the Macallan 18-Year-Old.
Glenlivet 1967, bottled in 1979
Glenlivet is a popular Scotch whisky brand based in the Speyside region of Scotland. Founded in 1822, it started out as an illicit distillery but quickly rose to prominence after King George IV arrived in Scotland for a state visit and asked to try a drop of whisky from the infamous brand. Laws were eventually changed, and the distillery was able to trade legally. The distillery itself spent many years in the hands of the Smith family but, around the time of the bottling of this 1967 whisky, the company had merged with the Glen Grant distillery and ran under the name The Glenlivet and Glen Grant Distillers, Ltd.
To view all of the available lots available on the Click Whisky Auction platform this November, visit their website to find out more: https://www.clickwhiskyauctions.com/
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisker_distillery
https://www.clickwhiskyauctions.com/
