Rare sips: Yamazaki 50, Brora 30 and a cognac from 1848 available in Singapore
At the Bonhams Whisky Auction held in Hong Kong last year, the Yamazaki fifty Year One-time raised eyebrows when it was sold for HK$2,695,000 (S$465,000), setting a new tape for the virtually expensive Japanese whisky sold at an auction.
Quaich Bar carries just a canteen of this 50 Year Old treasure. Chua Khoon Hui, owner of Quaich Bar, says the scarcity of l-yr-one-time whiskies in the market place makes this spirit a collector'southward item. "The Japanese unmarried malt industry was in turn down in the 1980s, and most surviving distilleries would take reduced their production. So a fifty-twelvemonth-quondam whisky will remain rare well into the 2030s," he added.
Toll upon request at Quaich Bar.
Southward Embankment Avenue, 30 Beach Road, #01-16. Tel: 6386 5366
For whisky fans, a dram from a shuttered distillery is something special; a lost zeitgeist in a bottle. The Highlands-based Brora, which operated from 1819 to 1983, is one such distillery. In the early on 1970s, Brora was known for making peaty whiskies for blending, in response to demand for such styles popularised by Islay-based distilleries.
The Brora thirty Year Quondam, which was distilled in 1976 and bottled in 2006, is a gentler version of the peaty sips of that era. The dram offers notes of burnt twigs, hickory and raisins, and its finish teases with a mandarin skin aftertaste. Emmanuel Dron, owner of The Auld Alliance, a whisky bar that carries this Brora 30 Year Old and other rare spirits, says 1 should drink this Brora neat. "Water ice will 'freeze' your palate, and also dilute the texture of this cute whisky."
S$fourscore per glass; S$3,600 per bottle.
The Auld Alliance, 9 Bras Basah Road, Rendezvous Hotel, Gallery #02-02A. Tel: 6337 2201
The majority of Cognacs are blends of eaux-de-vie or brandies from different years. That is why when someone offers y'all a vintage Cognac – a Cognac made from the harvest of a single year – you should never say no, especially if it happens to be a nineteenth century gem similar the Jean Grosperrin 1848.
Jean Grosperrin is a family-run Cognac house that is renowned for its ageing and distribution of very rare cognacs. The Auld Alliance bar's Emmanuel Dron reckons that there are less than 400 bottles of the 1848 in the world. The 1848 is rather light on the palate, having lost some of its alcoholic verve. Just its swirl of gingerbread, cinnamon, anise and plum notes has an alluring, exotic quality. Enjoy this one slowly. It has taken more 150 years to reach you.
Southward$200 per glass; S$viii,900 per bottle.
The Auld Alliance, 9 Bras Basah Road, Rendezvous Hotel, Gallery #02-02A. Tel: 6337 2201
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