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Sandy MacDonald Special Liqueur Whisky (circa 1920–1923)ġ963 Cadenhead (distilled at Jameson’s Bow Street) 27 year oldġ984 Yoichi Single Cask 15 year old Cask #103440ġ948 Old Overholt Bottled in Bond 7 year old Rye Old Orkney Real Liqueur Whisky (circa 1930s)ġ963 Cadenhead (distilled at Caledonian Distillery) 21 year old Sherry Woodġ922 Berry Bros. Perfect Collection Part One-Highest Prices by Whisky Style StyleĬlosed Distillery Scotch Whisky (also Island Single Malt) Numerous other record prices were set for individual bottlings, including 1928 Macallan Anniversary Malt 50 year old, which sold for $119,700 (£92,000). Fifty-five bottles sold for more than $10,000 apiece, though there was something for everyone: 126 bottles and 43 miniatures sold for a hammer price of less than $100, with a bottle of Colonel’s Special selling for under $20. One in 10 bottles sold was Macallan, which accounted for three in every five dollars spent. The top prices for each style of whisky are shown below. The sale raised $4,277,000 from 1,932 bottles (99.4% of lots sold) and attracted 1,642 bidders from 56 countries. What else happened in The Perfect Collection Part One? Depending on the currency markets, a hammer price in the region of £1.31 million will be the key figure to reach. Whisky Auctioneer’s 1926 Macallan Fine & Rare 60 year old must attract a bid that’s 59% higher than its Valerio Adami record in order to break the world record. The fact that Whisky Auctioneer beat the existing world record for the 1926 Macallan Valerio Adami 60 year old suggests that it can challenge the Sotheby’s record in April, but let’s take nothing for granted. This is the first bottle of its kind to be sold since Sotheby’s set the world record in 2019. Whisky Auctioneer has a second bottle of 1926 Macallan Fine & Rare 60 year old which will be offered during The Perfect Collection Part Two. Million Dollar 1926 Macallan 60 year old 1926 Macallan 60 year old
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To date, five auction houses in Scotland, England, and Hong Kong have auctioned million-dollar whiskies (Bonhams, Hong Kong has done it twice). Although different artistic labels were produced, the 1926 Macallan Fine & Rare 60 year old holds the current world record. All six came from a single cask of Macallan, distilled in 1926 and matured for 60 years. The first million-dollar whiskies sold in Hong Kong in May 2018. To be successful in their bids, collectors need to adopt different strategies to best suit each auction format. Typically, they involve simultaneous sales of thousands of whisky bottles over a 10-day period-quite different from traditional live auctions, where an auctioneer handles the sale of each lot individually over 30 seconds to bidders in the room, on the phone, and online. 3, 2018Īlthough online whisky auctionsare a nascent industry, they’ve grown to become the main method for collectors around the world to buy and sell whisky on the secondary market.
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* Calculated using historical currency tables at Bonhams -Oct. Whisky Auctioneer’s New Record For 1926 Macallan Valerio Adami 60 year old Even with the lower premiums charged by online whisky auction houses, this sale unambiguously surpassed the previous record for the Valerio Adami bottle, set in 2018.
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It’s also the sixth standard-sized whisky bottle ever to achieve $1 million at auction, and the third-highest auction price ever achieved for a bottle of whisky. A European buyer paid a record $1,180,703, including premiums, for the 1926 Macallan Valerio Adami 60 year old on February 17, 2020, setting a record for Scotland’s most expensive whisky ever auctioned. The bottle of rare Macallan was the highlight of The Perfect Collection Part One by Whisky Auctioneer, an estate sale of nearly 4,000 bottles, split into two sales, that has the potential to become the greatest whisky auction of all time. With the click of a mouse, the first million-dollar whisky has been sold at an online whisky auction. Whisky Auctioneer is the first internet whisky auction house to sell a bottle for more than $1 million-in this case, the 1926 Macallan Valerio Adami 60 year old.