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As promised in miNiZ127 I will concentrate on Scotch this time. The
bottles have been sold at six auctions (https://whisky.auction/ – UK
based) over the past 13 months (10/19, 01/20, 04/20, 06/20, 08/20,
10/20). As in the past I am going to start with the most expensive
bottles. One thing of note is what I think is the Pandemic Effect.
Where we can compare, the same top end bottles fetched lower
prices this year than in the October 2019 auction. I cannot detect any
difference in low to mid priced bottles.

The star of the October 2019 auction was the Old
Orkney '0.0.' Real Liqueur Whisky. This is from
the Stromness Distillery which closed in 1928. It
sold for £4,000. I’m sure that most of you will

never have even heard of Stromness distillery so
here is a link to an excellent article:
https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/26710/the-
tenacity-of-orkney-s-early-whisky-makers/

The Tomatin 50yo was made in
1967 and sold in October 2019.
£1900 bought it. The lovely
decanter style bottle is a Dalmore
45yo, 4cl, 180th Anniversary bottle.
Again, this was an Oct 19 sale, this
time at £1850. There were two
Bowmore 40yo sold, the first
(10/19) fetched £1600 and the
second (8/20) ‘only’ £900. Port
Ellen 39yo ‘Untold Stories The
Spirit Safe’ was a 3cl Press
Sample. 3cl seems a bit mean if

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