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It’s time to tell you all about something we’ve been keeping under wraps for a few weeks now – we reckon this might be the most exciting find of Irish whiskey ever. Towards the end of November, a team from Whisky-Online travelled over to Northern Ireland on the trail of a remarkable haul.  Our own Wayne and Tim R got the redeye ferry over to Belfast, where they met up early one morning with freelance drinks writer and WOL collaborator Tim F, a native of the city along for the ride.

Unsurprisingly it was another Macallan that took the top spot in an overall rather excellent auction. This time the 1949 50-year-old millennium decanter was the winner with a hammer price of £25,100. Followed not too far away by the first edition of the Highland Park 50-year-old at £16,800 and the Macallan 1946 52-year-old at £12,700. All hefty and serious results.

It’s a bumper month for our whisky auction, with some of the most exciting bottles we’ve had all year! The boys were over on Islay recently for a spot of fishing and picked up a lot of fabulous bottles from local collectors for this auction. There are tons of great distillery-only and Feis Ile bottles from years gone by and lots of old favourites and rarely-seen bottlings as well, so the following is just a taster…