The Glenturret Eight Decades by James Turrell 41.5 abv NV (1 BT 70cl)

The Glenturret Eight Decades by James Turrell 41.5 abv NV

Artist proof Decanter #008, complete with the whisky specially created by Bob Dalgarno to celebrate James’s 80th Birthday will be offered for sale, complete with three of James Turrell's hand sketches from the decanter design phase, all signed by James himself. 

The Glenturret, Scotland’s Oldest Working Distillery, presents Eight Decades, a collaboration with Lalique and renowned American artist James Turrell, who is famed worldwide for working with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception.

The Eight Decades decanter is created as a celebration of the artist’s 80th year and a poetic tribute to generations of craftsmanship – both The Glenturret distillery (since 1763), and Lalique’s master glassmakers (since 1888). The shape and colour of the bottle, which has a neck injected with violet crystal, created a technical difficulty for the Lalique artisans in Alsace, ensuring that the crystal be evenly distributed to offer a transparency that would magnify the amber-coloured whisky inside.

The whisky has been selected by The Glenturret’s Whisky Maker, Bob Dalgarno using insight from his conversations with James. Drawn from eight casks, ranging from 1987 through to 1998, each represents a different facet of the eight decades of James Turrell’s life, his character and vocation.

The resulting whisky has aromas of dark dried fruit, chocolate orange, ginger cake, red berries, fresh apples, and softer oak. On the palate, gentle wood spices, rich fruit cake laced with treacle and honeycomb balanced with burnished oak provide a long, mellow finish.

Lalique and The Glenturret would also like to invite the buyer to visit both the factory and distillery to see the making of process culminating in a dining experience in The Glenturret Lalique Michelin starred restaurant. 

All proceeds raised from this auction will be donated to the Roden Crater foundation.

1 bt 70cl (opc)

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