Easter Ross distillery The Dalmore launches 33 Year Old limited edition in collaboration with NFT marketplace BlockBar
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An Easter Ross single malt distillery will launch a new exclusive 33 year-old bottling as part of a partnership with a cryptocurrency retailer.
The Dalmore Highland Single Malt has partnered with NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace BlockBar.com for its second collaboration to release 223 NFTs of The Dalmore 33 Year Old, which will launch at 10am EST on Tuesday March 29.
The first 10 bottles of The Dalmore 33 Year Old will be available to existing BlockBar NFT holders only via a lottery on BlockBar.com.
This partnership follows a previous sale of The Dalmore Decades No. 4 Collection which sold out in minutes for $137,000 back in November 2021. Following an initial successful partnership, the brands have collaborated for the second time to offer the one-off product exclusively on the asset-backed NFT platform.
Private client director at The Dalmore, Gerry Tosh, said: “Following the success of our first NFT-backed bottle with BlockBar last November, we are pleased to exclusively release 223 bottles of this exceptional 33 Year Old whisky. The Dalmore offers some of Scotland’s most rare and precious whisky stocks, remarkable in their desirability to collectors, investors, and drinkers alike and this bottle is no exception. It takes artistry to craft each bottle of The Dalmore and so it is our pleasure to invite the first 10 buyers of this special single malt to experience the home of our whisky.”
The NFT serves as a digital receipt that verifies the buyer’s ownership and authenticity of the whisky bottles.
The whisky, finished in casks of Pauillac Premier Grand Cru Classé, will be disgorged in September 2022 and will sit at 51 per cent ABV. Bottling of the cask will begin in early September making the physical bottles ready to redeem in late December 2022.
Each bottle will be stored at BlockBar’s secure facility in Singapore, until the purchaser decides to redeem the bottle. These unique NFTs are being offered exclusively through BlockBar.com. Upon purchase, the cryptographic version will be held securely by BlockBar, with a record of authenticity held on the blockchain as a digital certificate of ownership. The buyer may choose to keep the NFT in their digital bar, gift it, redeem the physical product and have it delivered from BlockBar’s secure storage facility anywhere in the world, or to safely trade its NFT version within the BlockBar.com marketplace.
Dov Falic, co-founder and CEO of BlockBar, said: “Community is at the heart of the NFT world and with this drop we wanted to celebrate that. By purchasing The Dalmore 33 Year Old Vintage on BlockBar, owners will have the rare chance to attend a celebratory bottling event at a venue chosen by the community, anywhere in the world. This is not something you would have the chance to experience with a regular whisky purchase, let alone the fact that this is an exceptionally rare bottle in the first place. It’s something we’re extremely excited to offer in collaboration with The Dalmore.”
More information can be found at blockbar.com.
