A bottle of The Macallan 1926, described by Sotheby’s public sale home because the “Most worthy whisky on this planet”, on Saturday went beneath the hammer for a file £2.1 million.
The uncommon bottle had been anticipated to lift between £750,000 and £1.2 million however outstripped estimates to fetch £2,187,500 (2.5 million euros, $2.7 million).
The sale set a “new file for any bottle of spirit or wine bought at public sale”, Sotheby’s advised AFP.
One of many Macallan 1926 bottles had set a earlier file for the costliest bottle ever bought in 2019, when it fetched £1.5 million on the identical London public sale home.
Sotheby’s head of whisky Jonny Fowle advised AFP forward of the sale that he had been allowed to pattern the prized whisky.
“I tasted a tiny drop — a tiny drop — of this. It’s extremely wealthy, it is acquired plenty of dried fruit as you’d anticipate, plenty of spice, plenty of wooden,” he stated.
He stated it had spent 60 years in darkish European oak, which was mirrored within the color.
“It is not a whisky to take calmly. It is a wealthy, wealthy dram, however it’s unbelievable,” he stated.
The bottles are amongst solely 40 that Macallan, based mostly in Moray, northern Scotland, has confirmed had been bottled from Cask 263 in 1986.
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