When feeling particularly frisky, I will toss out a bit over $100 for a well-aged bottle of Scotch whisky. Next month, Sotheby’s will be one-upping me a bit. They are set to auction off what is considered the most sought-after Scotch available: The Macallan Adami 1926. That’s a 96-year-old single malt from the distiller Macallan.
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in 2019, Sotheby’s sold a similar bottle for 1.5 million pounds ($1.8 million),
a record for any bottle of wine or spirit. The bottle up for auction now is
expected to reach $1.4 million. As you might imagine, The Macallan 1926 is
rare. After being aged in sherry casks for over six decades, just 40 bottles of
The Macallan 1926 were bottled. The bottle going up for sale has undergone
reconditioning by the distillery ahead of the auction. This included replacing
the cork and applying new glue to the corners of the bottle labels. The label
on this bottle was designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.
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can only imagine the sweet taste of Scotch finished for six decades in cherry
casks. Thing is, if I could fling out the kind of money needed for the Scotch,
I wouldn’t do so just to own a bottle of it; I would sip at the whisky and
share it with my friends.
—Mitchell
Hegman
Source:
apnews.com
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