Would you buy a bottle of Irish whiskey worth €6,500? When whiskey bonder Louise McGuane located a single cask of single malt from 1991 at theSo she went looking for investors to purchase the cask. Once the money was secured, she then set about creating The Chosen, the most expensive bottle of Irish whiskey ever sold. Just 100 bottles, the entire content of the cask, were made.
As a whiskey bonder, she does not distil the spirit herself but sources it from other distilleries and matures it in a purpose-built rackhouse. She explained: “I have been working on this plan since the foundation of the business. Irish whiskey is in very significant growth at both ends of the market and also at the super-premium level. I thought if nobody is going to break open this sub-category, I was going to do it.”
The Chosen was bottled aged 27 years at the “pinnacle of maturation” and at a high alcohol by volume . She describes it as a “superlative example of an Irish single malt”