We love a whisky story or two but this one is a jaw-dropper.
If you are a bit of a “whisky geek” like us you may well have already heard that a stunning collection of Macallan bottles were up for auction at Sotheby’s in London on 24th October. But as if this wasn’t exciting enough, a 60-year-old bottle of 1926 Macallan has only gone and sold for almost three times over its initial valuation of £350,000-£450,000, at a record-breaking £1.5 million (US$1.93 million)!
This 60-year-old Macallan comes from the same cask #263 of Macallan which some of you may remember yielded the previous record-breaking bottle of whisky that sold for a value of £1.2 million at Christie’s auction last November.
Cask #263 was distilled in 1926 when the distillery was 60-years-old and only yielded 40 bottles. 12 of these bottles bear labels designed by Italian artist Valerio Adami, 12 more by Peter Blake, a further 2 were sold individually and given private labels one of which was hand-painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon, and the remaining 14 bottles, including the one auctioned today, were adorned with Macallan’s ‘Fine and Rare’ label and are the oldest in this series by both age and vintage.
Our thoughts on this big news… cheers to expensive taste!