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Macallan 1926 whisky auction
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Sotheby’s announced held its inaugural auction to be held at The Macallan Estate in Speyside, Scotland, featuring a rare bottle of The Macallan Fine & Rare 60 Years Old 1926 whisky. The bottle, distilled Distilled in 1926 and bottled in 1986 from sherry-seasoned oak cask No. 263, was one the whisky is part of an extremely limited series; only 40 bottles were drawn from the cask, with just 14 to receive receiving the ‘Fine & Rare’ label. The auction carried a high estimate of £2.2 million. On October 9, the whisky bottle sold for £2.1 £2.125 million at the distillery location in Moray. (approximately $2.8 million). While the sale was significant, it did not surpass the existing world record for a single bottle, which was set bottle in January 2024 when British pounds, it set a new auction record for this specific expression and achieved the highest price ever recorded for a bottle of whisky in U.S. dollars. The ‘Live from Craft Irish Co sold for £2.2 million. The Macallan Estate’ event featured 42 lots of rare Macallan whiskies from private collections, totaling £3.3 million in sales and exceeding high estimates.
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