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Bonhams to auction ‘very rare’ non-peated Laphroaig
An “exceptional and very rare” bottle of non-peated Laphroaig Old Liqueur has been added to the upcoming Bonhams Whisky sale in Edinburgh.
The bottle of Laphroaig Old Liqueur is expected to fetch between £6,000-7,000
The bottle, which is expected to fetch between £6,000-7,000, was distilled and bottled by D. Johnston & Co. at the Laphroaig Distillery “in the early 20th Century”.
Unusually for a single malt from Islay, the label describes the whisky as “non-peaty”.
Bonhams Whisky specialist, Martin Green, said: “I believe it would have been bottled from an autumn cask filling.
“The non-peaty nature of the whisky is almost certainly the result of distilling after a particularly long dry summer when the water supply would have contained fewer of the natural peaty phenols which give Laphroig and other Islay malts their characteristic nose and taste.
“As you can imagine, bottles like this appear extremely rarely and it could be many years until a similar bottle comes onto the auction market, if ever.”
The bottle comes from a collector who has owned it since it was discovered at Alexander McGavin’s, No. 12 Bond, Robertson St., Glasgow in the early 1980s.
One of the world’s “scarcest” whiskies, The Royal Brackla 60-year-old 1924, is due to go under the hammer this month at the Bonhams Annual Christmas auction.
Last month, Bonhams New York reintroduced its Fine and Rare Wine and Whisky auction more than one year after the site suspended all whisky sales due to concerns over “profitability”.
