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Bunnahabhain 2000 Gordon and MacPhail Reserve / Van Wees

Lot: 5025250

Bunnahabhain 2000 Gordon and MacPhail Reserve / Van Wees

Winning Bid: £110

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Bunnahabhain
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
2000
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Gordon & MacPhail
Cask Type: 
1st fill bourbon
Bottled Strength: 
59.7%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Bunnahabhain 2000 Gordon and MacPhail Reserve / Van Wees

An austere piece of Victorian architecture on the north-east coast of Islay, Bunnahabhain is a relative outsider on the island, traditionally known for producing an un-peated single malt. The majority of this was used for blending, as was its initial intended purpose. The distillery was shut for 2 years in 1982 following the market downturn of the period, and despite being revived at low production, it was eventually officially bottled as a single malt later that decade, with the self-deprecating tag-line, "the un-pronounceable malt."

This was bottled in 2009 by Gordon & MacPhail. A Reserve series single cask, it was specially selected for Van Wees.

Gordon & MacPhail are one of the largest and most recognisable whisky companies in the world. Although they began distilling at the newly refurbished Benromach distillery in 1998, for most of their history they were an independent bottler. Their labels are recognised by whisky lovers the world over, and their licensed bottlings from distillery's like Macallan and Talisker in the 1970s and 1980s, when the companies were not bottling themselves, are a huge part of the success of those distillers today.

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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