To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Whisky.Auction, we're delighted to present a programme of exclusive tasting sessions at Whisky Show 2025.
During these 30-minute experiences, we’ll taste superb whiskies from the past made at legendary distilleries, as well as catching up with valued auction clients to discuss your favourite bottlings, your experiences as a member of the Whisky.Auction community and your passion for old whisky and spirits. You can find the full line-up of tasting sessions below.
10 Years of Whisky.Auction - Hosted by Nicholas Morgan
Friday 4.30pm & Sunday 2pm - £50
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’ve produced a 40-page report that dives into the ins and outs (and ups and downs) of the secondary market for whisky over the last decade, with reporting and opinion from Gemma de Jesus Loureiro, Scott Walker and whisky historian Nicholas Morgan. In this session, we’ll talk through some of our findings and taste our way through three key bottlings mentioned in its pages.
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Port Ellen 1977 19 Year Old Hart Brothers
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Glenfarclas 8 Year Old bottled 1980s
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Hibiki 17 Year Old bottled 1990s
Sherry Cask Scotch - Hosted by Jason Vaswani, Head Buyer Old & Rare and consultant for Whisky.Auction
Friday 6pm, Saturday & Sunday 12.30pm - £45
In this tasting session, we’ll taste three Speyside and Highland single malts whose flavour profiles are directly influenced by long maturation in sherry casks: a Glendronach from the 1990s, a 1980s Tamdhu entirely aged in sherry, and a malt from Macallan - the Speyside distillery that’s perhaps the best-known exponent of sherry cask maturation in the world of whisky today.
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Tamdhu 15 Year Old, bottled 1980s,
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Glendronach 15 Year Old Sherry Cask, bottled 1990s.
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Macallan 21 Year Old Fine Oak.
Iconic Collectible Whiskies - Hosted by Scott Walker, Head of Valuations at Whisky.Auction
Friday 7pm, Saturday & Sunday 3.30pm - £45
The reputation of these two Scotch whisky distilleries, and of the Van Winkle family of whiskeys from the Buffalo Trace distillery, hardly needs stating. And while their value in the secondary market shows no sign of abating, we’ll be enjoying opening a bottle of each from classic bygone eras, from Springbank distilled in the 1970s to long-aged Van Winkle rye, and a Ben Nevis from the vaunted 1996 vintage.
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Ben Nevis 1996 19 Year Old, Cask 1424 (Private Cask)
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Springbank 15 Year Old Green Thistle, bottled 1990s
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Van Winkle’s 13 Year Old Family Reserve Rye
A Journey Through Peat - Hosted by Gemma De Jesus Loureiro, Head of Whisky.Auction
Saturday 2pm & 4.30pm, Sunday 4.30pm - £45
This session examines the diversity of peated whisky through three distinctive and differing single malts from days gone by. We’ll look at the celebrated tropical fruit and peat of old Laphroaig, the maritime smoke captured in independent bottling of rare Ardbeg distilled in the 1990s, and the rich, earthy and heathery peat of an old Highland Park 12 Year Old.
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Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength bottled 2009 - Batch 001
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SMWS 33.53 Ardbeg 1994 10 Year Old bottled 2004
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Highland Park 12 bottled 1980s Screenprint