The Macallan Adami 1926 was sold at Sotheby's in London on Saturday
A rare bottle of whisky has been sold for $2.7m
(£2.1m) - breaking the record for the most expensive wine or spirit sold at
auction.
The Macallan
1926 single malt is one of the world's most sought-after bottles of Scotch
whisky.
It was sold by
Sotheby's on Saturday, at more than double its estimated price.
The auction
house's head of whisky said he had been allowed to taste "a tiny
drop" of it beforehand.
"It's
very rich, it's got a lot of dried fruit as you would expect, a lot of spice, a
lot of wood," Jonny Fowle told the AFP news agency.
The whisky
spent 60 years maturing in dark oak sherry casks before becoming one of just 40
bottled in 1986.
The 40 bottles
were reportedly not made available for purchase - instead, some were offered to
The Macallan's top clients.
And whenever
any of the bottles have been auctioned over the years there have been
extraordinary results - a similar bottle was sold in 2019 for £1.5m.
Speaking last
month in the run-up to the auction, Mr Fowle said The Macallan 1926 "is
the one whisky that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to
own".
"It's not
a whisky to take lightly. It's a rich, rich dram, but it is incredible,"
said Jonny Fowle from Sotheby's
Sotheby's said
the 40 bottles from the 1926 cask had been labelled in different ways.
Two bottles
had no labels at all, a maximum of 14 were decorated with the iconic Fine and
Rare labels and 12 were labelled by pop artist Sir Peter Blake.
A further 12
bottles - including the record-breaking one sold on Saturday - were designed by
Italian painter Valerio Adami.
It is not
known how many of the 12 bottles of The Macallan Adami 1926 still exist.
One is said to have been destroyed in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is believed at least one other has been opened and consumed.
By Francesca
Gillett
BBC News
Source: Macallan: Rare Scotch whisky becomes world's most expensive bottle at £2.1m - BBC News
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