LONDON — A bottle of what Sotheby’s is asking “the most sought-after Scotch whisky” is about to go up for public sale subsequent month, with an estimated value of as much as $1.4 million, the public sale home stated Thursday.
It stated the 96-year-old bottle of single malt from distiller Macallan — The Macallan Adami 1926 — will come below the hammer in London on Nov. 18, with a value estimate above 750,000 kilos. Advance bidding will start Nov. 1.
A model of The Macallan 1926 was bought by Sotheby’s in 2019 for 1.5 million kilos, a document for any bottle of wine or spirit. The look of three totally different bottle variations of the whisky at auctions in 2018 and 2019 led to the document being damaged thrice.
“The Macallan 1926 is the one whisky that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own,” stated Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s world head of spirits. “I am extremely excited to bring a bottle to a Sotheby’s auction for the first time since we set the record for this vintage four years ago.”
After being aged in sherry casks over six many years, simply 40 bottles of The Macallan 1926 had been bottled, making them the distillery’s oldest classic.
Sotheby’s stated among the 40 had been provided to Macallan purchasers, with as much as 14 adorned with Macallan’s iconic Fine and Rare label, together with the record-breaker. Twelve of the bottles, together with the one being bought subsequent month, had their labels designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.
The bottle going up on the market is the primary to have undergone reconditioning by the distillery forward of public sale. This included changing the cork and making use of new glue to the corners of the bottle labels.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”