Macallan: Rare Scotch whisky ends up being world’s most costly bottle at ₤ 2.1 m

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By Francesca Gillett

BBC News

An uncommon bottle of whisky has actually been cost $2.7 m (₤ 2.1 m) – climaxing for the most pricey red wine or spirit cost auction.

The Macallan 1926 single malt is among the world’s most popular bottles of Scotch whisky.

It was offered by Sotheby’s on Saturday, at more than double its approximated rate.

The auction home’s head of whisky stated he had actually been permitted to taste “a small drop” of it in advance.

“It’s really abundant, it’s got a great deal of dried fruit as you would anticipate, a great deal of spice, a great deal of wood,” Jonny Fowle informed the AFP news company.

The whisky invested 60 years growing in dark oak sherry casks before turning into one of simply 40 bottled in 1986.

The 40 bottles were apparently not offered for purchase – rather, some were provided to The Macallan’s leading customers.

And whenever any of the bottles have actually been auctioned throughout the years there have actually been amazing outcomes – a comparable bottle was offered in 2019 for ₤ 1.5 m.

Speaking last month in the run-up to the auction, Mr Fowle stated The Macallan 1926 “is the one whisky that every auctioneer wishes to offer and every collector wishes to own”.

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Sotheby’s stated the 40 bottles from the 1926 cask had actually been identified in various methods.

2 bottles had no labels at all, an optimum of 14 were embellished with the renowned Fine and Rare labels and 12 were identified by pop artist Sir Peter Blake.

A more 12 bottles – consisting of the record-breaking one offered on Saturday – were developed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.

It is not understood the number of the 12 bottles of The Macallan Adami 1926 still exist.

One is stated to have actually been ruined in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is thought a minimum of another has actually been opened and taken in.

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