Glenfiddich Explorers

Cinderella Whisky Cruise

By Ian

Last Friday and Saturday I joined the Viking Line Cinderella on a two day whisky cruise from Stockholm through the islands and out towards Finland before returning to Stockholm.

On both days we had record audiences for the cruise where most of Scotland’s Malt Whiskies were on show. We ran a Masterclass on each day and sampled cask strength 15 and 18 as well as a 31 year old Glenfiddich Vintage and two older Vintages from 1958 and 1959 respectively, I also shared a 1955 sample with the Friday crowd as there was sufficient left over from an earlier tasting with Swedish Journalists.

Each cruise an auction is held to raise money for charity and this year we auctioned off a rare vintage of Glenfiddich 1965, a price of nearly £700 was finally realised for this bottle. see picture of Lennart Rosenqvist below with Kurre and myself, I am blowing on the bottle to dry my signature.

Furthermore, there was some Glenfiddich Private Vintage 1955 left over from the earlier nosing and tasting, this was auctioned off as 2 drams (ca 30ml each), first dram going to Göran Sandberg for SEK2600 ( £260 ) and the second dram going to Tobias Persson for SEK1600, ( £160 ).

All money raised through these auction items went to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), very appropraite right now considering what`s happening out in Haiti.

 

 

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