Queen’s Bowmore whisky donated to charity

Two commemorative bottles of Bowmore Single Malt Whisky from “The Queen’s Cask” have been donated to a charity auction in the US.

Each bottle is individually numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity

In 1980, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Bowmore Distillery and was presented with a cask to celebrate Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee.

Before bottling, the original cask was made whole – to account for evaporation – to ensure a full cask’s worth of 1980 Bowmore Single Malt Scotch Whisky was gifted.

In 2002 the whisky was bottled, filling 648 in total, each of which are individually numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity.

Each year the Queen donates three bottles to to her Clerk of the Royal Cellars, Simon Berry of Berry Bros. & Rudd, to be donated to charity, and this year the bottles will be available for the first time in the US as part of the Regions Hospital Foundation’s 26th annual Wine Auction.

“It’s hard not to be excited,” said Sarah Bazey, co-chair of the Wine Auction, in a press release.

“We have two bottles of whiskey coming to St. Paul directly from Buckingham Palace, and this whiskey comes with a great story. The winners are going to get the chance to live like royalty. ”

On November 20, 2015, Bonhams will auction both bottles unless the minimum reserve is met on or before September 19, the night of Regions Hospital Foundation’s 2015 Wine Auction.

Proceeds from the whisky auctions and the Wine Auction event will be donated to the Regions Hospital Burn Centre.

Earlier this month a rare whisky collection and a single bottle of 52-year-old Karuizawa are thought to have set two new world records at a recent Hong Kong auction.