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 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. * 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.

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.

Duty, heavy duty, but this isn’t the most attractive Scottish style… Time to switch to heavy-sherry mode!!! Our ratings for the Mac: SV: 86 points, OH: 88 points. No need to tell that nobody would say it’s Macallan when tasting it blind… In fact, both Olivier and I become to feel tired after having tasted all these unsherried cask strength Speysiders. Again, it’s bold and robust, but a little too simple: it lacks some finesse, even if we can find some interesting aspects in it. Too bad, the palate doesn’t match the nose.

Malty and yeasty (fresh bread crumb), then grassy (rhubarb) with lots of liquorice stick and wood. The first mouthfeel is quite balanced, but extremely powerful. Very nice, it helps check that Macallan is a very fine distillery, not only a special wood treatment factory. Hints of liquorice, gets a little grassy. Beautiful nose with cold coffee, flowers from the fields, freshly cut apple, gooseberry. Quite unusual! The colour is incredibly pale, like some white wine’s, and at first nosing it’s mellow and warming.

Here’s a rare old unsherried Macallan, just one month older than Olivier. Macallan-Glenlivet 1963 30 Years Cadenhead (ABV 54.7%)

Macallan whiskey 1963