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Laphroaig 30 Year Old Hunter Laing Kinship / Feis Ile 2017 - Signed by Jim McEwan

Lot: 326089

Laphroaig 30 Year Old Hunter Laing Kinship / Feis Ile 2017 - Signed by Jim McEwan

Winning Bid: £700

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Laphroaig
Age: 
30 Year Old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Isaly
Bottler: 
Hunter Laing
Cask Type: 
refill bourbon hogshead
Bottled Strength: 
53.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Laphroaig 30 Year Old Hunter Laing Kinship / Feis Ile 2017 - Signed by Jim McEwan

To celebrate the commencement of the construction of the Ardnahoe distillery on Islay in 2017, Hunter Laing released a selection of 6 bottles called the Kinship collection. Each celebrating a different Islay distillery and available exclusively at Feis Ile in 2017.

Feis Ile, also known as the Islay Festival of Music and Malt had humble beginnings. It traces it origins back to 1985 and the establishment of The Islay Festival Association after it was realised that an event celebrating Gaelic, music and culture would drive tourism to the island. The inaugural event was rtwo weeks of music, drama and workshops with ceilidhs, concerts and dances in the evening. The first whisky tasting took place as a festival event in 1990, and ten years later the island's distilleries began to be directly involved, organising their annual open days to coincide with it. Today it is one of the biggest events on the whisky calendar, annually drawing hundreds of revellers, and turning out an increasingly sought-after batch of limited edition whiskies like this.

This is Edition 4 in the 2017 range and is a well-aged Laphroaig at 30 years old. It was matured in a refill bourbon hogshead and is one of 365 bottles. A second Kinship series was released in 2018 to celebrate the completion of the Ardnahoe project.

Laphroaig is the largest of the three heavyweight Islay distilleries in Kildalton, out-stripping the production capacity of neighbours, Ardbeg and Lagavulin, by over 1 million litres per annum. Despite its traditional appearance, Laphroaig was always a forward-thinking distillery. It was bottled as a single malt as early as the 1920s, an unfashionable option at the time, especially for a peated whisky. They were also shrewd in capitalising on post-Prohibition America to add trademark sweetness to their spirit through the use of imported ex-bourbon casks, and hired Scotland’s first ever female distillery manager, Bessie Williamson, in 1954. Laphroaig is one of only a handful of distilleries in Scotland to still use in-house maltings, providing them with 20% of their annual requirements, and contributing to the distillery’s unique flavour profile.

This bottle is being sold from the Pat's Whisk(e)y private collection which, numbering in excess of 9,000 bottles and over 2,000 miniatures, is the single largest collection of whisky ever to be brought to auction. Pat's Whisk(e)y is the result of over fifteen years of passion and dedication to the goal of creating one of the most complete libraries of whisky and whiskey ever amassed by an individual collector. It contains bottles from over 150 different Scottish distilleries, as well as bourbon, rare Scotch releases from sought-after independent bottlers in Europe, and whisky from other distilleries across the globe. Whisky Auctioneer is delighted to have partnered with Pat's Whisk(e)y to offer this collection across a number of exclusive and spotlight auctions. For more information, please click here.

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