The Macallan Release The Red Collection

[William]

The Macallan has released The Red Collection which combines the distillery's oldest-ever ongoing bottlings a 50, 60 and 70 year old with a limited release of some of the oldest ever released by The Macallan a 71, 74 and 78 year old.

As you can imagine you will need very deep pockets to taste any of the collection, if anyone fancies treating me to a bottle it is already listed a The Whisky Shop



If you want to read more about the collection including a tasting note in case you cant get hold of a bottle for yourself see here:

https://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/macallanredcollection.htm
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There's no bad whisky. Just good whisky and better whisky.

[RN Rob]

I really would love to taste them to see how good they are but they are way beyond my budget.

[DF]

Insane prices

[James T]

Macallan really is the rich mans dram, I do like to think whoever buys whiskies like this opens them to drink.

[Scotchnthings]

Yeah I'm pretty sure I would get dissapointed drinking it... If anyone has deeper pockets though.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/the-ultimate-whisky-collection-part-ii-more/the-macallan-red-collection-with-exclusive-labels

Already going up for auction, all bottle no2's signed by master whisky maker. Probably distillery itself putting it up for auction?

[Bookie]

Yes the auction is for charity, to quote Williams piece on it:

[Scotchnthings]

[Brummie]

That's is some example of how bottle number inflate the price in the whisky collector and investor market. As a drinker bottle numbers mean nothing to me.

[William]

Aberdeenshire based online whisky auction Whisky Hammer has informed me that they have a bottle of The Macallan Red Collection 78 Year Old up for grabs in their current auction.

https://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/macallan78yearoldauction.htm

Given that the Macallan 78 Year Old was listed in the Whisky Hammer auction only one day after its release, and wondering how this could have been possible to get hold of a bottle so quickly and get it authenticated and entered into the auction I asked Whisky Hammer about it and they told me: "It is being sold by a private seller, not Whisky Hammer and not Macallan".

At the time of typing this the auction has four days to run and the current bidding is £75,000 but the reserve has not yet been met but it will certainly be interesting to see if a whisky of this price can be flipped so quickly for a profit and what will the profit be.
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There's no bad whisky. Just good whisky and better whisky.

[DF]

The 78 was on sale for 100K originally on release.

[Charlie]

Not that I was browsing to buy but I did notice that The Whisky Shop listed the Macallan 78 at £100000 when it was launched, quite a mark up on £65500 as William said and they appear to have sold out, I wonder how many bottles they sold, a nice earner for them.

TWE don't seem to be listing them and haven't revealed their price, you have to contact them if interested. I haven't spotted any of the collection on Master of Malt but the prices they quote on their blog is the same as the prices RRPs William has stated.

[JKD]

Perhaps this will be the new premium whisky sales technic - Price On Asking

[Scotchnthings]

[lowlander]

Currently at £76,000 and still hasn't met the reserve bid! If you've got a few spare quid going, you can try your luck here:

https://www.whiskyhammer.com/item/58855/Macallan/Macallan---78-Year-Old-The-Red-Collection.html

[James T]

If it really is being auctioned by a private seller as William has been told then some flipper could be about to be left with a very expensive bottle of the Macallan