Hibiki Koto, bottled in a porcelain decanter shaped after the famous long Japanese board zither. The koto appeared in the Japanese court during the 8th century and was called the gakusō. Schools for the bourgeois were established in the 16th century. Two of these—Ikuta (started in the 17th century) and Yamada (opened in the 18th century)—continue to the present day. Solo (danmono) and chamber (sankyoku) music dominate the repertory, and in the latter form the koto player often sings as well.

Content 600ml - volume 43%

This is the final presentation of the discontinued expression Cutty Sark 18 years old.

Content 70cl - volume 40%

Dragon Blade is a movie, released February 2015, starring superstar Jackie Chan; for this special occasion Jack Chan teamed up with Kweichow Moutai and released this beautiful golden decanter.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

This Kweichow Moutai FeiTian was bottled in 2010 for the Shanghai Expo for Wine, intended as a present for visitors. Each 1000th visitor received a free bottle, with a maximum of 5 bottles per day for a period of 184 days.

Content 500ml - volume 38%

This is a extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing (Vintage Five-Star), bottled for the Chinese domestic market June 6th 1952, one year after the founding of Kweichow but still produced at Hengxing, run by Lai Mao (known for the record-selling 1935 bottle, the oldest Moutai known in existence), one of 3 distilleries which eventually formed Kweichow Moutai. In September 1952, three months after the release of this bottle, Moutai was one of 4 liquors/wines which were selected in the national wine appraisal held in Beijing. Between 1952 and 1966 Kweichow Moutai was sold in 3-mold ceramic earthenware decanters, produced in Guizhou, nicknamed Bamboo Joint bottles. 

Content and % ABV are not stated, such information first appeared on the Feitian bottles in 1976. We estimate this to be a 545ml bottle with 55% ABV.    

Suntory President's Choice was selected and blended by Keizo Saji, born in Osaka in 1919 as the second son of Shinjiro Torii, founder of Kotobukiya. He became president of Kotobukiya in 1961, and officially renamed it to Suntory Limited in 1963, paying tribute to the success of Suntory Whisky a.k.a. Kakubin.

This decanter was commissioned in 1989 to commemorate Suntory's 90th anniversary.

Content 720ml - volume 43%

Despite the fact Springbank 8 years 100% Pure Malt has turned out to be a very populair expression, it won an award in 1983, the lack of production capacity forced the distillery to discontinue this entry-level Campbeltown in favor of the 15, 21 & 25 year old Springbanks. This bottle #05456 is one of the last 18000 bottles 8-year old Springbank ever released, distilled in 1976 and released in 1984.

Content 750ml - volume 43%

This 8 year old Springbank 100% Pure Malt is a 1970 release for the Japanese market, presented in a dumpy bottle with distinctive yellow labels.

Content 750ml - volume 43%

This 21-year old Springbank Single Malt was bottled for Japan in a round dumpy bottle with parchment style label.

Content 750ml - volume 46%

This 15-year old Springbank Single Malt was bottled for Japan in a round dumpy bottle with parchment style label.

Content 750ml - volume 46%

Hibiki 30 years Kachō Fūgetsu (beauty of nature) is a 2015 duty-free limited release of just 100 decanters.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

Yamazaki 25 years, bottled in 2021, matured in a combination of Mizunara, American- and Spanish Oak.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

Cuvée Dom Pérignon Réserve de l'Abbaye, also known as Dom Pérignon Gold or simply Gold Réserve, is a stand-alone series in the Dom Pérignon range released exclusively for the Japanese Market. Branded as an ultra-deluxe product, it undergoes about twenty years of extended ageing on the lees - longer than the ageing of Dom Pérignon Plénitude 2.

Named after the Abbaye d’Hautvillers where Dom Pierre Pérignon was cellarmaster from 1668 until his death in 1715.

It is unknown how many bottles of this rare vintage have been produced but they are scarce; this is the 1985 vintage, bottle #11413.

Content 750ml - volume 12.5%

This 12-year old Yamazaki Pure Malt was bottled in 1994 in a Arita-yaki Arabesque Somezuke (Blue-White) Peony (type of flower) decanter depicting a Inoshisi (wild boar).

Content 600ml - volume 43%

This Yamazaki 12 years Pure Malt has been bottled in a decanter shaped as a barrel

Content 1000ml - volume 58%

Scenes of Lynchburg is a series of bottles depicting the every-day life in Lynchburg, Tennessee. This is Number Two with a print of a truck loaded with barrels which undoubtedly contain Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey. Released in 1999 for the European market.

Note the condition of the print on the front which appears to have been over polished and thus we have reduced the price.

Content 1000ml - volume 43%

Chivas Brothers Royal Salute Stone of Destiny is a 38 year old blend, bottled in 2012, named after a block of red sandstone that was used in the coronation of Scottish monarchs until the 13th century, and thereafter in the coronation of English and later British monarchs.

Content 500ml - volume 40%

Martell Chanteloup Perspective, launched in March 2012, is an Extra quality Cognac blended from Cognac's four main growth areas: Grande- and Fine Champagne, Borderies and Fins Bois. Chanteloup is named after the Borderies Estate owned by Martell, with 250 meters the longest ageing warehouse in Europe. One of the sections, where Martell stores 2000 of their best barrels, is situated close to a viewing point overlooking the nearby valley, hence the name Chanteloup Perspective.

Martell Chanteloup perspective was discontinued in 2021 and replaced by Martell Chanteloup XXO which was first revealed to the world on 11 September 2019.

Content 70cl - volume 40%

Martell Création Grand Extra, created for key markets such as Asia, Russia, the USA and, of course, duty-free made its debut in Asia in November 2006, followed by Malaysia in January 2007 and the other target markets later that year. Création Grand Extra is the product of several years of work by the Martell cellar master Bruno Lemoine, using some of the oldest eau-de-vie on hand, and is intended as a tribute to the Martell founder. The company says it is a reinterpretation of the Martell Extra, which was first conceived in the early nineteenth century but never widely distributed.

This is the 2nd edition, bottled 15/10/2013.

Content 700ml - 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.

Content 70cl - volume 40%