A bottle of the world's "most coveted Scotch whisky" sold for more than £2.1 million ($2.7 million) at Sotheby's in London on Saturday for those who cherish life's finest drops.
According to the auction house, The Macallan 1926 is one of only 40 bottles to be bottled after 60 years in sherry casks, making it the oldest vintage of Macallan ever produced.
Sotheby's had expected the bottle to cost between £750,000 and £1.2 million (US$934,274 - US$1.4 million), but the coveted bottle went for £2,187,500 (US$2,724,967). ), which was a ``new record for any bottle,'' which shocked everyone. "Bottles of spirits and wine were sold at auction," the auction house told AFP.
Ahead of the sale, Sotheby's head of whiskey Johnny Fowle told AFP they had tried a small sample.
“I tried just a drop of it, just a drop. A further 12 were labeled by pop artist Sir Peter Blake, while the remaining two were released without labels. One of the unlabeled bottles was hand-painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon and became the first whiskey bottle to sell for more than £1 million ($1.2 million) in 2018, the auction house said on its website. Announced on the website.