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10th November 2022 |
A bottle of
Ardbeg 1974 31 Year Old Cask #2742 has
achieved an auction hammer price of
£35,000, a record for a single bottle of
Ardbeg.
 A
bottle of Ardbeg 1974 31 Year Old Cask
#2742, one of only 36 bottles from Cask
#2742, the smallest-ever official single
cask release from the distillery, has
achieved an auction hammer price of
£35,000, a record for a single bottle of
Ardbeg.
The record auction sale for a single
bottle of Ardbeg follows on from the
full cask of Ardbeg which fetched an
incredible £16m earlier this year,
Joe Wilson, Head Curator & Spirits
Specialist at Whisky Auctioneer who put
the rare bottle under the hammer, said:
"As Whisky Auctioneer continues to grow,
instances of auctioning a bottle for the
first time have become rarer yet all the
more special. We were hugely excited to
be lucky enough to encounter this
near-mythical single cask from Ardbeg,
notable for its important vintage as
well as its tiny 36-bottle yield. Ardbeg
is a distillery with a somewhat
tumultuous past, but since the turn of
the century has deservedly become one of
the world’s most desired whiskies, as
evidenced by the high international
interest in both this bottle and its
incredible result."
As many Ardbeg fans will know the 1974
vintage is considered a legendary time
for Ardbeg as it contains the last batch
of spirit to have been made using
exclusively on-site-peated malt. The use
of externally-peated malt after 1974
caused a change in style, which makes
these vintages incredibly sought after,
as they represent the final ‘old-school’
Ardbegs
The bottles from this cask #2742 were
originally only available to hotel bars
around the world, so many will have been
opened or consumed.
The Single Cask Ardbeg #2742 filled on
14 June 1974 and bottled 31 years later
on 20 September 2005.
Bidders from the UK, Germany, The
Netherlands and Switzerland all competed
for the bottle, before it reached a
final hammer price of £35,000 (plus
commissions) on Monday 7 November. The
winning bidder was based in Switzerland.
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