Records were shattered at the Sotheby's Auction, when one bottle, as rare as it can get, was auctioned at the staggering price of $2,714,250. The Macallan 1926 was seen previously in 2019 at the Sotheby’s Auction and had then sold for $1.9 million.
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On November 18, 2023, the Macallan 1926 made an appearance at the Sotheby’s Auction in London. Previously seen in 2018 and 2019, this whiskey has always managed to break records. This time, the record was broken again, this time doubling in value. Experts had set some expectations on raising between $948,063 and $1.51 million but it surpassed the quote, making this a noteworthy moment in the history of vintage alcohols. It became the most expensive spirit to ever be sold at an auction.
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Jonny Fowle, head of whisky at Sotheby’s, was allowed to sample this spirit before the auction. This is how he described it, “I tasted a tiny drop – a tiny drop – of this. It’s very rich, it’s got a lot of dried fruit as you would expect, a lot of spice, a lot of wood.”
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This whiskey is a single malt that was aged in sherry casks for sixty years before it was bottled in 1986. Only 40 bottles were made but they were not sold in the market, instead, Macallan offered these whiskeys to their top clients.
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This bottle, namely the Adami 1926, was one of the 12 bottles that had their labels designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami. Out of these 12, one bottle was lost in an earthquake in Japan, making this even rarer to obtain.
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What makes these bottles the highlight of every auction is that every time they surface, they have always surpassed expectations, and earned astonishing profits.
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