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27th April 2018 |
Sale of two
bottles of The Macallan 1926 for US$1.2
Million is a new whisky world record.
 Two
bottles of The Macallan 1926 have sold
for an incredible US$1.2 Million. The
$600,000 price paid for each of the two
bottles is a new world record, making
The Macallan 1926 the most expensive
bottles of whisky ever sold.
The two bottles are labelled with
original artworks by renowned artists
Sir Peter Blake and Valerio Adami and
they were sold by Le Clos, the
Dubai-Airport based luxury spirits
retailer, to an international
businessman for his private collection.
The two bottles really are two of the most
unique bottles of whisky ever produced.
The whisky itself is The Macallan 1926,
which was distilled in 1926 then aged 60
years in sherry-seasoned oak barrels
before being bottled and released in
1986. Of the 40 bottles produced, just
12 were given to British artist Sir
Peter Blake, famed for co-creating the
Beatles' album cover for Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band, and 12 were
given to the Italian artist Valerio
Adami, (released in 1993) one of the
most acclaimed pop artists of the 21st
century. Each artist created a bespoke
label for the bottles, making them
highly sought after by art-lovers and
whisky collectors alike. The rare
bottles are presented in cabinets, or
tantaluses, and are based on the 'brass
and glass' distillery spirit safe
designs.
Each bottle originally retailed at £20k,
and the last known individual bottle
sold in 2007 at Christie's for
US$75,000.
The sale at Le Clos sets a new benchmark
for private sales and certainly confirms
The Macallan's position as one of the
worlds most collectable whiskies. The
distillery also currently holds the
record for most expensive whisky bottle
sold at auction with The Macallan M
Imperiale achieving US$628,000 at
Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2014.
Le Clos' relationships and expertise
within the luxury spirits market to
source such rare and highly collectible
products enabled the record-breaking
sale to take place, building on several
previous world-record sales in travel
retail. Dubai Airport is the world's new
travel crossroads, and the partnership
has made Macallan accessible to
collectors around the globe.
Unfortunately you have missed out on the
two bottles of The Macallan 1926 but
you will find the current Macallan
whisky range as well as a few rare and
collectable Macallan bottlings available from specialist online whisky retailers such as The Whisky Exchange
and
Master of
Malt
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