Galway Bay fm newsroom – An extremely rare bottle of whiskey bottled at Nun’s Island in the city 100 years ago is set to fetch world record prices when it goes under the hammer next month.
The bottle of Allman’s Pure Irish Pot Still Whiskey was bottled in 1916 by the Galway Persse family, who once supplied their whiskey to the House of Commons.
It’s aged and tattered label shows that the whiskey was distilled in Bandon for a Captain R.E Palmer, and bottled at Nun’s Island in the same year as the Easter Rising.
The rare sample is believed to be the oldest bottle of its type to be auctioned in modern times and is one of just a handful of bottles left in existence.
Earlier this month, an opened bottle of DWD Irish Whiskey sold for a world record price of 15 thousand euro – and it’s expected that the Allman’s sample will easily surpass that record.
It’ll go under the hammer at Adams Auctioneers in Dublin next month.