This 25-year old Springbank Single Malt was bottled, by Archibald Mitchell, in a round dumpy bottle with parchment style label.

Content 750ml - volume 46%

Bowmore 30 years Sea Dragon is a 2006 limited edition of 1800 bottles. Needless to state this is pretty brilliant!

Content 70cl - volume 43%

Nikka Hirosaki 12 years Single Apple Brandy Fruit & Sweet is a distillery limited, bottled in 2013. Hirosaki by the way is the name of a Japanese city which happens to be the largest Japanese producer of apples.

Content 500ml - volume 40%

Since the introduction in 1874 Louis XIII de Rémy Martin, initially known as Age Inconnu, has been Rémy's most prestigious cognac, a blend composed of 1200 different Grande Champagne cognacs matured between 40 and 100 years, bottled in a decanter which was shaped after a 16th century metal flask found on a Jarnac battlefield in 1850 which was purchased by Rémy Martin.

Between 1874 and 1920 Rémy Martin Age Inconnu was sold in glass decanters made by Verrerie Royale de Saint Louis in Münzthal but these reproductions were far from perfect and so the production was entrusted to Cristallerie de Baccarat from 1920 onwards.

Between 1980 and 1981 a number of old edition Louis XIII were boxed in plastic casings for the Asian market.

Content 70cl - volume 40%

Hennessy Paradis was released in 1979 as successor of Hennessy Extra, though the name extra was added to the Paradis label for quite some time, apparently to ensure the public would understand what Paradis actually stood for.

Content 70cl - volume 40%

The second generation of the Niepoort family, in the late 19th century, had the fortunate idea of purchasing some 4000 glass balloons (in the form of old apothecaries’ bottles) of dark-green glass with varying capacities from 8 to 11 liters.

Eduard Karel Jacob van der Niepoort sadly died early and it was his son, Eduard Marius van der Niepoort, Dirk’s grandfather, who gave purpose to the demijohns by bottling the best wines of the 1931 harvest, thus creating the type “Garrafeira Niepoort”.

Content 75cl - volume 20%

This is a 49-year old undisclosed Cuban rum, distilled 31-12-1973. Hand bottled from Hogshead #2314303 on 23-08-2023 for Kyoto Fine Wine and Spirits.

Content 700ml - volume 52.2%

This interesting bottle, one of 251, is a 44-year old undisclosed Cuban rum, distilled 31-12-1978. Drawn from Hogshead 2314306 22-08-2023 on behalf of Kyoto Fine Wine and Spirits.

Content 700ml - volume 54.3%

In 1968 the Revolutionary Committee of Kweichow Moutai Distillery announced the replacement of the Feitian export label by a new logo depicting a sunflower. The initial design, nicknamed 'big-leaf sunflower' was almost immediately replaced by a new design, the small-leaf sunflower, which was sold between 1969 and 1978.

This makes the big-leaf sunflower one of the rarest Moutai's ever produced; it took until 2012 before a bottle actually surfaced, prior the big sunflower was often considered to be some kind of urban legend.

Content 545ml - volume 55% - weight 1024 grams

Nikka Yoichi 1989 Peaty & Salty Single Cask #251222, bottled 22-07-2002.

Content 750ml - volume 63.2%

Besides the Suntory Yamazaki Granville Wold Posters Series (1-VII) the distillery released another decanter with artwork from Alphonse Mucha: the Suntory Museum Collection World Posters I, depicting Salon des Cents (1896). This is a very rare decanter and we are unaware whether this was a one-of-a-kind release or part of a series.

Content 400ml - volume 43%

This Hibiki 21 years Dream Big was released in 2001 to commemorate the inauguration of Saji Nobutada, the 4th president of Suntory, successor of Torii Shinichiro who passed away in 2004.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

Suntory introduced Hibiki in April 1989, released to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the company.  The NAS premium blend at 43% ABV carried a suggested retail price of ¥10,000. Designated as “a masterful blend of specially aged whiskies with a mature full-bodied taste” on the front, the back label further elaborates that the contents are a mix of 30 different whiskies. The unique bottle, with its 24 facets that reflect the hours in the day as well as all the ‘small seasons’ in the year, sported a medallion, a gold cap stopper, all packaged in a luxurious box.  

This is the first release as it was available between 1989 and 1990, bearing the old Lion Crest logo, which was replaced in 1991, and a gold-colored stopper.

Content 750ml - volume 43%

The Hakushu distillery is owned by the Suntory group, and situated in the Toribara locality of the former town of Hakushu, in the Yamanashi Prefecture, Chubu region, Japan.

This is the 2013 Hakushu Heavily Peated

Content 700ml - volume 48%

Suntory Hibiki 30 years was launched in 1987 and had become one of the most sought-after whiskies on the planet, winner of the 'world's best blended whisky' at the 2007 and 2008 World Whisky Awards.

This is a 2014 limited edition of just 100 Aritayaki porcelain decanters.

Content 750ml - volume 43%

To Commemorate Mount Fuji, the highest peak in Japan, getting added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 2013, Suntory released a hand painted special edition limited edition of 2000 decanters in 2014 and a second batch the year thereafter of which this is one.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

The Arita and Kutani ceramic decanters were an annual limited release from Suntory, bottled between 2001 and 2014. Each one contains their exceptional Hibiki 21 year old blend, which contains malt from their Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries, and grain from the Chita distillery. Arita and Kutani are the pre-eminent ceramic houses in Japan, both located on the islad of Kyushu. Each year, both houses designed a decanter each, and they are all hand-painted.

This is the Hibiki Kutaniyaki 2001 release, bottled for the year 2002.

Content 600ml - volume 43%

Hibiki 21 years, bottled in 2010 for the 80th Anniversary of Iwatani.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

Suntory introduced Hibiki in April 1989, released to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the company.  The NAS premium blend at 43% ABV carried a suggested retail price of ¥10,000. Designated as “a masterful blend of specially aged whiskies with a mature full-bodied taste” on the front, the back label further elaborates that the contents are a mix of 30 different whiskies. The unique bottle, with its 24 facets that reflect the hours in the day as well as all the ‘small seasons’ in the year, sported a medallion, a gold cap stopper, all packaged in a luxurious box.  

Hibiki 17 years old was launched in 1994, as replacement for the nas version which however contained the exact same whisky.

This is the 3rd edition with gold label and clear facetted stopper, a blend of 36 malt whiskies unlike the previous version which contained a blend of 30 malt whiskies.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

The 2022 Mizunara Cask from Yamazaki is inspired by Tsukuriwake, a philosophy of artisanship through diversity. This series unveils the individual elements that make Yamazaki whisky, from the casks that it matures in to the malt that it is made from.

Content 700ml - volume 48%