The price tag will drive you crazy.
A rare bottle of Macallan Adami 1926 single malt whiskey sold for $2.7 million after a bidding war at Sotheby’s auction in London on Saturday — a record for a bottle of wine or spirits.
The bottle of Scotch, described by experts as the “most sought after” whiskey in the world, is one of only 40 bottled in 1986 after spending 60 years aging in sherry casks and has a unique label designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.
“The Macallan 1926 is the one whiskey that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own,” said Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s head of spirits, adding that the sale was “insignificant for the whiskey industry as a whole.”
Kirsteen Campbell, Macallan’s master whisky, described the luxury spirit as having notes of “rich dark fruits, black cherry compote with sticky dates, followed by spicy and sweet antique oak.
A bottle of 1926 Macallan Adami whiskey sold for a record $2.7 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Saturday, breaking the single malt sale record, which had been set by a bottle from the same cask that sold for $1.5 million in 2019.Getty Images for Sotheby’s
“The note goes on,” Campbell said. “It was a very special moment to experience the opening of this iconic 60-year-old single malt, first bottled 37 years ago, and I hope the new keeper will enjoy the same privilege.”
The heady sale price, fueled by a back-and-forth bidding war among collectors on the phone and on the auction floor, surpassed the expected price mark of under $1.5 million.
Saturday’s auction broke the previous record for a bottle of single malt, held by a Macallan bottle from the same cask that fetched $1.5 million in sales in 2019.
With Postal wire
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