The Dalmore
Paterson Collection a truly unique
collection of 12 rare whiskies costing a
cool £987,500.
As the global market for luxury
whisky continues to flourish, Harrods, the world’s leading luxury
retailer has teamed up with The Dalmore
single malt whisky to create a truly
unique collection of rare whiskies - The
Dalmore Paterson Collection.
The Dalmore Paterson Collection, the
only one of its kind in the world goes
on sale and will take pride of place in
the newly refurbished Fine Spirits Room
at Harrods from today 16th July 2013 for
£987,500.
The Dalmore Paterson Collection consists
of twelve rare expression which has been
individually assessed, nosed, tasted and
selected by Richard Paterson, master
distiller of The Dalmore. The rare
collection is made up from some of the
rarest, oldest and most valuable whisky
stock in the world. But Richard was not
alone in this enviable task as Nick
Fleming, wine and spirits buyer for
Harrods, used his unrivalled expertise
to help choose the whiskies.
Richard has chosen to name each of these
whiskies, dating from 1926 up to the
1990s, in honour of those people who
have influenced and inspired him
throughout his career, from his own
father and grandfather to the founders
of The Dalmore’s parent company, James
Whyte and Charles Mackay. The names of
the 12 Dalmore Paterson Collection
bottles are:
- William Taylor
- Charles Chree Doig
- Alexander Matheson
- Andrew MacKenzie
- Douglas Cooper
- John MacDonald
- Donald MacKinlay
- Andrew Usher
- Grandfather & Father
- Drew Sinclair
- Aeneas Coffey
- J Whyte & C MacKay
The personality of Richard Paterson has
also been imprinted on the Collection
through the creation of a personal and
unique hand written ledger, spanning
more than 200 pages and taking more than
1000 hours to write, capturing Richard’s
every thought and step on the way to
creating the collection.
Bespoke, Hand Crafted Ledger, Decanters
and Cabinet
The ledger has been created by John
Watson & Company Ltd, one of Glasgow’s
oldest printers and long serving
suppliers to the whisky industry. Each
of the pages have been hand folded and
individually foiled in silver with
Richard’s signature before being bound
in a bespoke book made of the finest
calfskin leather.
Each of the twelve expressions is
presented in a hand crafted full lead
crystal decanter, produced by Glencairn,
one of the world’s leading crystal
houses. Luxury jeweller Hamilton &
Inches have crafted and hand engraved
the silver that adorns each bottle.
The collection itself is housed in a
bespoke wooden cabinet, created by one
of Britain’s leading cabinet makers,
Gavin Robertson through more than 700
hours of design and craft.
The Dalmore Paterson Collection has be released as the global market
for luxury wine spirits continues to
flourish with growth of 12% forecast in
2013. This growth is fuelled by a
combination of factors, including the
continued rise of the Chinese luxury
consumer accounting for one in four
purchases of personal luxury goods, and
the rise of luxury tourism accounting
for 40% of global luxury spending. (Bain
& Company "Luxury Goods Worldwide Market
Study" 2012)
The global market for luxury whisky in
particular mirrors this trend, with
emerging markets such as Latin America
and Asia demonstrating particularly
strong demand for rare and vintage
expressions. A voracious appetite for
single malt is also prevalent across
mature markets such as the US, where
luxury whisky is one of the most dynamic
sectors of the US spirits market with
volume sales increasing by 16% in 2012 (CandMResearch,
2013). |