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Black Bowmore
continues to break auction price
records, selling for £11,900
Those of you that were lucky enough
to buy a bottle of
Black Bowmore 1964 2nd release from
Oddbins for £93 back in 1994 when it was
first released and then drunk it may
just want to stop reading now as a
bottle of the Black Bowmore 1964 30 Year
Old 2nd Edition has just sold at auction
for £11,900. I bought 2 bottles when it
was first released which
have long since past by my tonsils.
This latest record auction price for a
bottle was paid by an investor from the
USA in a recent auction hosted by by
Perth-based online auction Whisky
Auctioneer.
The record-breaking bottle is the second
of the three Oloroso cask 1964 Bowmore's
released in the mid-1990s. As one of
2000 bottles, it originally retailed on
the high street for around £93, I recall
at the time thinking this was a lot for
a bottle of malt whisky and wasn't happy
about the £13 price increase from the
£80 1st edition released the previous
year but I bought a second bottle once I
tasted it. Over the last 20 years, it
has achieved almost mythical status
among whisky fans the world over. It is
not known how many bottles are left in
circulation but my two bottles are long
gone.
The bottle was one of over 4,500 bottles
being auctioned off in December by
Whisky Auctioneer, securing a total of
more than £1.2 million. Other notable
sales included:
- Clynelish 1973 Single Cask 41
Year Old / Wealth Solutions - £6,100
- Port Ellen 1981 Feis Ile 2008 -
£4,600
- Macallan Private Eye - £3,700
- Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old -
£3,000
The world record price achieved for
the Black Bowmore Second Edition
certainly reflects the ongoing boom in
the secondary market for rare whisky,
with an increasing number of collectors,
connoisseurs and investors participating
in the market through online auctions.
Over the past year alone, Whisky
Auctioneer tell me that they have seen a
36% rise in the number of users.
Unlike the traditional auction houses,
online auctioneers are able to offer a
catalogue of bottles to their global
database of buyers, frequently breaking
records as more and more users
participate in these easy to use and
exciting auctions.
Sean McGlone, director, Whisky
Auctioneer said: We were expecting some
high bids for this incredible whisky, we
hoped it would exceed expectations and
break all previous records. It just goes
to show how iconic this expression has
become among whisky collectors and
aficionados the world over. As more
consumers discover the joys of rare and
vintage whisky, it’s difficult to see
how demand won’t continue to increase
pushing up prices for those brands and
bottles which are most coveted.
"Fortunately at Whisky Auctioneer we are
continuing to attract some of the very
best collections for sale worldwide.
Having moved the world’s largest private
collection of rare Japanese Karuizawa
whisky last year for a record breaking
amount, and setting records for icons
such as this 30 year old Black Bowmore,
we are developing a reputation as one of
the very best whisky auctioneers
available for both buyers and sellers.
We’ll do our bit to help growing the
market by continuing to improve our
service to make it easy as possible for
whisky collectors to trade."
For more information about Whisky
Auctioneer and to view their latest
auction visit www.whiskyauctioneer.com.
Of course if you cant wait to see if you
auction bid is successful there is
always the traditional way to get your
hands on a bottle of rare Scotch whisky,
buy it now from a reputable online
whisky shop such as
The Whisky Exchange and
Master of Malt
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