White Peak companions with Whisky Auctioneer
to public sale bottles 1 – 12 of its inaugural launch for Derbyshire charities
White Peak Distillery from Derbyshire is that this month providing the final alternative to personal a bottle of its sell-out inaugural launch of Wire Works Whisky by way of main public sale website Whisky Auctioneer.
Off the again of its massively profitable launch in February 2022, White Peak has partnered with Whisky Auctioneer, the world’s main on-line public sale platform to public sale the primary 12 individually-numbered bottles of Wire Works Whisky – Derbyshire’s first ever single malt. The public sale might be reside on whiskyauctioneer.com from the twenty sixth August – fifth September with 100% of the proceeds going to Derbyshire charities.
White Peak launched simply over 5,000 numbered bottles of its long-awaited Wire Works Whisky single malt in February this 12 months and the whisky acquired a unprecedented response from the Distillery’s loyal followers and supporters promoting out each in shops and on-line in only a few hours.
The Distillery thoughtfully held again bottle numbers 1 – 12 of this primary launch, with a view to auctioning them later within the 12 months to lift as a lot cash as doable for 2 regional charities near the Distillery’s coronary heart.
Derbyshire Wildlife Belief and The Peak District Nationwide Park Basis are the 2 beneficiary charities who will obtain the public sale proceeds. The Distillery has beforehand labored with each on quite a few fundraising bottlings and actions, together with restricted version spirit releases and native environmental initiatives.
Whisky Auctioneer is working in partnership with White Peak to host the public sale reside on its global-reaching website, with bids being accepted from 26th August. These trying to bid for a bottle of the sell-out inaugural Wire Works Whisky single malt could have ten days till fifth September to position their bids. Potential bidders from throughout the globe could have the chance to position bids for one of many dozen bottles happening sale.
Claire Vaughan from White Peak mentioned: “We’re very excited to be bringing this public sale to life by means of Whisky Auctioneer and help two necessary environmental charities in our native Derbyshire area. We try to help our native communities, so after we first launched our inaugural single malt, we noticed one other nice alternative to once more give one thing again. We hoped that the public sale proceeds from these first 12 bottles would assist contribute to some sensible regional causes. We’re delighted to companion with the Whisky Auctioneer workforce to make this occur for 2 improbable native charity companions: Derbyshire Wildlife Belief and The Peak District Nationwide Park Basis and may’t wait to see how a lot we are able to elevate.”
Joe Wilson, head curator and spirits specialist at Whisky Auctioneer, mentioned: “Pleasure reverberated within the whisky neighborhood earlier this 12 months with the discharge of the inaugural Wire Works Whisky from White Peak distillery. As such, we’re delighted to now companion with the distillery to supply the one probability to accumulate the primary 12 numbered bottles.
“We’re certain that these bottles will generate quite a lot of pleasure from our world viewers of whisky lovers, providing the unique alternative to gather the very first output from such a younger and vibrant distillery which is already held in nice esteem. To make sure that as a lot is raised as doable from the public sale, we’ve got waived our promoting charges and can donate the ten% purchaser’s fee along with the hammer value raised.”
Emma Davenport, Partnerships Officer at Derbyshire Wildlife Belief mentioned: “Derbyshire Wildlife Belief are delighted to obtain half of the proceeds from the White Peak Distillery Whisky Public sale. White Peak Distillery is a valued companion who’s actively engaged in our mission to fight the local weather and nature emergency; and obtain our imaginative and prescient of a Wilder Derbyshire. The proceeds from the public sale will help our work to make sure 33% of Derbyshire is managed for wildlife by 2030, 1 million wild connections annually and 1 in 4 folks performing for wildlife.”
Sarah Slowther, The Peak District Nationwide Park Basis Supervisor mentioned: “We’re delighted to have been chosen by White Peak Distillery to obtain donations from the public sale. The donation will help our Join Get well Thrive marketing campaign which helps folks to hook up with the Nationwide Park and to expertise the enjoyment of nature, in addition to serving to landscapes and habitats to get well and thrive.”
The public sale for 12 bottles of Wire Works Whisky goes reside on Whisky Auctioneer on Friday 26th August and can stay open for ten days till Monday fifth September. For additional data, please go to: https://whiskylink.co/WireWorks-CharityAuction
For these wanting to go to White Peak, the Distillery is open Monday – Saturday for store guests, with excursions accessible each Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For availability, timings and to e book, please go to www.whitepeakdistillery.co.uk
About White Peak Distillery:
White Peak Distillery was based in 2016 by husband-and-wife workforce Max & Claire Vaughan – each initially from Derbyshire – and continues to go from energy to energy, having received awards for its Distillery customer experiences, in addition to its new make and maturing single malt spirit.
Provenance, heritage and flavour are on the coronary heart of the Distillery ethos and whisky-making course of, and its house on the dramatic former Johnson & Nephew Wire Works is widely known throughout the whisky model. The Distillery’s woodland house on the banks of the River Derwent has a protracted historical past of innovation and kinds a part of a UNESCO World Heritage Web site.
Wire Works Whisky celebrates its wealthy homeland and the brewing heritage for which the area is so famend. Each side of manufacturing and maturation is completed onsite on the Distillery to make sure that the distinctive location and surroundings can play their half within the provenance of the ultimate spirit.
The lightly-peated single malt whisky has been created utilizing a mixture of English un-peated and peated malted barley. A flavour-focused four-day fermentation makes use of a novel yeast Mix incorporating reside yeast sourced from a neighborhood Peak District brewery.
The Distillery’s conventional, bespoke copper pot stills have been hand-built by McMillan and are run slowly to assist produce the specified flavour profile. The ultimate spirit is matured in a wide range of rigorously chosen first fill oak casks, together with ex-bourbon, virgin and STR (re-conditioned casks which have been shaved, toasted and re-charred), including the ultimate wealthy flavours to the whisky.
Whisky Auctioneer is the worldwide market chief and trusted authority on the shopping for and promoting of whisky and spirits at public sale. Based in 2013 and headquartered in Perth, Whisky Auctioneer utilises its experience and information mixed with its public sale platform to extend curiosity and keenness within the whisky and spirits neighborhood.
Whisky Auctioneer endeavours to make the secondary market extra accessible for consumers and sellers of any background and demographic, wherever on this planet they’re primarily based. Its month-to-month world auctions function essentially the most complete choice of outdated, uncommon and collectible whiskies and spirits on-line, and are unmatched in quantity, number of bottles supplied and costs achieved. Whisky Auctioneer is captivated with connecting these bottles with those that share their ardour and actively help their prospects of their goals, whether or not consuming, accumulating or investing.
In February 2021, the net public sale home made historical past throughout the iconic sale of The Good Assortment, when a bottle of The Macallan 1926 Positive and Uncommon 60 Yr Outdated bought for a hammer value of £1 million. This was the primary time a single bottle of whisky has bought at an online-only public sale for a million kilos.
Whisky Auctioneer grew to become the primary on-line public sale home to promote a million-pound bottle and outperformed the closest conventional public sale home by 200% in worth from spirits gross sales in 2020, showcasing the transfer that whisky collectors, buyers and drinkers have already made on-line and firmly establishing their main place throughout the fashionable secondary whisky market.
The enterprise presently sees over 100,000 bids per thirty days and has performed deliveries to 74 nations throughout the globe. It additionally opened its first European base in Germany in 2020.
The enterprise’ Founder, Iain McClune, was listed as ‘One to Watch’ in The Telegraph’s Most Bold Enterprise Leaders 2020 programme.
About The Derbyshire Wildlife Belief:
They’re a small charity with massive concepts, uniquely positioned to steer change in Derbyshire. They’re daring, grassroots-oriented and native while additionally being a part of a powerful, cohesive motion, the Wildlife Trusts.
Their targets by 2030 are as follows:
- 33% of Derbyshire might be managed for wildlife
- They may have not less than 1 million wild connections annually
- 1 in 4 folks will act for wildlife
- We might be carbon constructive
For extra data and to help The Derbyshire Wildlife Belief go to: www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/help
About The Peak District Nationwide Park Basis:
An unbiased charity that helps to take care of the Peak District Nationwide Park and to make it accessible for all.
Their imaginative and prescient is a Nationwide Park loved and conserved by everybody, endlessly. It needs to be a vibrant, vibrant, and secure house for the wildlife all of us love. Their proper to benefit from the Nationwide Park was arduous received by odd folks. In that spirit, let’s combat to make it ever extra accessible, for everybody to get pleasure from. However it’s also distinctive and really fragile; we should all the time attempt to maintain it particular. That is what they imagine – and why they exist. Together with your help, they will begin to make good issues occur.
