Kagami are one of the most famous glassmakers in Japan and are the supplier for the Imperial Household Agency’s official receptions. The cask used for maturation was Mizunara oak which is notoriously difficult to create casks from but that impart a strong flavour, often with a note of spice, onto the whisky. The whisky itself was distilled in 1960, making it a 40 year old single malt and one of the oldest Yamazaki expressions. This was Suntory’s, owner of Yamazaki, first single cask single malt bottling and it was created to celebrate the company’s 100 year anniversary and the turn of the millennium. Next on this list is the Yamazaki The Century bottling. Only 200 bottles of the 35 year old were released and as a result, these bottles don’t feature on the secondary market very often. A smaller cask increases the whisky to wood contact ratio which increases the rate of maturation and imparts stronger flavour. This 35 year old bottling was matured in a 90 litre Spanish oak sherry butt cask, an unusual capacity for this type of cask which are most commonly 500 litres. This whisky consists of a blend of spirits distilled from 1966 to 1970 and was bottled in 2006. The third bottle on this top 5 Yamazaki at auction is the 35 Year Old expression. Of course, at number 1 there is the 55 Year Old and at number 2 the 50 Year Old First Edition, so let’s take a look at the next most valuable Yamazaki expressions. Therefore, in addition to looking solely at the top auction prices, we have compiled this list of the top 5 most expensive different bottles of Yamazaki. November 2020 Yamazaki Mizunara 1979 Cask #RF1037 £29,406Īs we have previously mentioned, the 55 Year Old and the 50 Year Old Yamazakis dominate the top 5 most expensive bottlings at auction. As such, it is possible that we will see Yamazaki break its own record in the near future.Īugust 2020 Yamazaki 55 Year Old £562,944Īugust 2018 Yamazaki 50 Year Old First Edition £245,096Īugust 2019 Yamazaki The Century 1960 40 Year Old £45,240 There are hopes that Yamazaki will release two more editions of the 55 Year Old, as with the 50 Year Old. It instantly became the most expensive Japanese whisky ever to sell at auction. The bottle listed in the table above was the first Yamazaki 55 Year Old to appear at auction after huge anticipation, and it did not disappoint, smashing its pre-sale estimate of £50,000-£70,000 and selling for over £560,000. The 55 Year Old was released in a limited run of 100 bottles that were available only to Japanese customers by ballot. Of course, the 2020 Olympics were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Suntory planned to release this bottle in celebration of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, alluding to the fact that 1964 (when this whisky began aging in white oak casks) was the year in which Tokyo last hosted the Olympics. It was distilled in 1960 and aged in both Mizunara and white oak casks (from 1964), and bottled at 46% ABV. The Yamazaki 55 Year Old was released in June 2020 to great fanfare. That was until the release of the Yamazaki 55 Year Old, the bottle that takes the top spot on this list. Until 2020, the Yamazaki 50 Year Old was the oldest expression of Yamazaki available. The first two editions come in a handmade wooden box, whilst the third edition comes in a black wooden box. The most noticeable difference between the editions is that the first edition bottle is impressed with the words ‘SUNTORY SINGLE MALT WHISKY “YAMAZAKI”’, as opposed to the second two editions, where the bottles read ‘THE YAMAZAKI SINGLE MALT WHISKY’. The first edition release consisted of only 50 bottles, as did the second, and the third of only 150 bottles. The first edition was bottled in 2005 for 1 million Yen (£5,053 in 2005), the second in 2007 for the same price, and the third in 2011. There are three different editions of the 50 year old. January 2019 Yamazaki Single Malt 50 YO Second Edition £198,400Īs you can see, this list is mostly dominated by one bottle, and that is the Yamazaki Single Malt 50 Year Old. January 2018 Yamazaki Single Malt 50 YO Third Edition £219,678 October 2019 Yamazaki Single Malt 50 YO Second Edition £242,668 So, today we are taking a look at the top five most expensive Yamazaki bottles at auction, and just what makes them so special.Īugust 2020 Yamazaki Single Malt 55 YO £562,944Īugust 2018 Yamazaki Single Malt 50 YO First Edition £245,096 Top 5 Most Expensive Yamazaki Bottles At Auction
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