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Talisker 25 Year Old. Bottled by Diageo for their Special Releases in 2007. Limited edition Sea Chest. One of 500 sets. 70cl. 58.1%. In wooden presentation box with 2 branded rocking glasses.
A bottle of the Talisker 25-year-old Sea Chest edition Island single malt whisky from the 2007 Special Releases.
The 2007 Special Release Talisker 25-year-old was an edition of 6894 bottles released from a batch of refill sherry and bourbon casks at its natural cask strength of 58.1%. At the time this bottling sold quite slowly, as it was more expensive than the 2004 and 2005 Special Release Talisker 25-year-olds, which were still widely available as they had been bottled in massive quantities - remarkably, the 2004 Special Release Talisker 25-year-old was 21000 bottles while the 2005 bottling was a batch of 15600 bottles.
To perk up sales of the 2007 release - ironically one of the finest official Taliskers ever bottled - it was relaunched by Diageo in this fancy Sea Chest wooden box with a leather tube and two free glasses. Nevertheless, all three batches were easily found for several years afterwards, often priced under £100 thanks to the big discounts Diageo was forced to offer retailers in order to shift their stock.
Founded in 1830, Talisker’s medium-peated whisky perfectly expresses the rugged terrain of the distillery’s surroundings on the western Hebridean Isle of Skye, where it was the only legal distillery for many decades until the recent arrival of Torabhaig.
Talisker had been one of the stars of Scottish Malt Distillers’ portfolio for decades before the launch of the Classic Malts series in 1987 cemented the distillery’s popularity in the modern era. Early examples of Talisker’s single malt were bottled over a century ago by merchants including Berry Brothers and there were numerous official bottlings from around the 1940s onwards.
The old style Talisker's thrillingly savage spirit has been tamed this century, regrettably, but the extraordinary early cask strength Special Release Taliskers bottled between 2001-2010 still offer great value at auction.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £425.00 | 7th January 2026 | 05:55 PM | |
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