The growing appetite for rare whisky miniatures seems to be matching that of larger bottles after 5CL of one of the world's rarest single malt whiskies sold for £6,670 during an online auction. The small bottle of Malt Mill, a tiny Islay distillery which only produced for just over 50 years, was sold during a sale by the online auction house Whisky.Auction, setting a new record.
The 10-year-old whisky was produced at the tiny distillery on the grounds of the larger Lagavulin Distillery on Islay, and was only produced between 1908 and 1962. Much sought-after, it's shrouded in a little mystery and intrigue, for it was never bottled as a single malt, but rather used for blends.
Speaking about Malt Mill, whisky expert and historian Nicholas Morgan said: “Is this the rarest bottle of whisky in the world? A genuine taste of antiquity? An insight into what whisky tasted like not just fifty years ago, or a hundred years ago, but in the style of the mid-nineteenth century that made, as Peter Mackie said in 1908, ‘highland whisky famous.’
