Record for world's priciest bottle of whisky smashed at Sotheby's auction

A bottle of The Macallan from 1926, which Sotheby's auction house called "the most valuable whiskey in the world," went under the hammer on Saturday for a record 2.1 million pounds (2.5 million euros, 2.7 million dollars), UNN reports with reference to AFP.

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The rare bottle was expected to fetch between £750 thousand and £1.2 million, but surpassed estimates.

The sale set "a new record for any bottle of spirits or wine sold at auction," a Sotheby's spokesman told AFP.

One of the 1926 Macallan bottles set a previous record for the most expensive bottle ever sold in 2019 when it was sold for £1.5 million by the same London auction house.

Sotheby's whisky department head Johnny Fowle told AFP before the sale that he was allowed to taste the valuable whisky.

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I tried a tiny drop - a tiny drop - of this. It's very rich, it's got a lot of dried fruit, as you'd expect, a lot of spices, a lot of wood,"

He pointed out that the drink spent 60 years in dark European oak, which reflected in the color.

"This is not a whiskey to be taken lightly. It's full of drama, but it's incredible," Fowle said.

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These bottles are among only 40 that Macallan, from Moray in northern Scotland, has confirmed were bottled from Cask 263 in 1986.