{"id":12704,"date":"2023-11-19T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2023-11-19T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T13:33:15","slug":"macallan-rare-scotch-whisky-becomes-worlds-most-expensive-bottle-at-2-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/macallan-rare-scotch-whisky-becomes-worlds-most-expensive-bottle-at-2-1m\/","title":{"rendered":"Macallan: Rare Scotch whisky becomes world’s most expensive bottle at \u00a32.1m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A rare bottle of whisky has been sold for $2.7m (\u00a32.1m) – breaking the record for the most expensive wine or spirit sold at auction.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Macallan 1926 single malt is one of the world’s most sought-after bottles of Scotch whisky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was sold by Sotheby’s on Saturday, at more than double its estimated price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The auction house’s head of whisky said he had been allowed to taste “a tiny drop” of it beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whisky spent 60 years maturing in dark oak sherry casks before becoming one of just 40 bottled in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 40 bottles were reportedly not made available for purchase – instead, some were offered to The Macallan’s top clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u00a31.5m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image caption, “It’s not a whisky to take lightly. It’s a rich, rich dram, but it is incredible,” said Jonny Fowle from Sotheby’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sotheby’s said the 40 bottles from the 1926 cask had been labelled in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A further 12 bottles – including the record-breaking one sold on Saturday – were designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not known how many of the 12 bottles of The Macallan Adami 1926 still exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rare bottle of whisky has been sold for $2.7m (\u00a32.1m) – 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/131478046_themacallanadami1926_-3.jpg.webp?fit=976%2C549&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12706,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}