Macallan whiskey expensive5/7/2023 Dubai Airport is the world's new travel crossroads, and the partnership has made Macallan accessible to collectors around the globe. 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. The sale at Le Clos sets a new benchmark for private sales and completes another chapter in The Macallan's history as a collector's whisky - 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. The rare bottles are presented in cabinets, or tantaluses, and are based on the 'brass and glass' distillery spirit safe designs.Įach bottle originally retailed at £20k, and the last known individual bottle sold in 2007 at Christie's for US$75,000. Each artist created a bespoke label for the bottles, making them highly sought after by art-lovers and whisky collectors alike. 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 21 st century. 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. ![]() These two bottles are two of the most unique bottles of whisky ever produced. The bottles were sold by Le Clos, the Dubai-Airport based luxury spirits retailer, to an international businessman for his private collection. The pair are labelled with original artworks by renowned artists Sir Peter Blake and Valerio Adami. Two extremely rare bottles of The Macallan 1926 have today set the world record for the most expensive whisky bottles ever sold after they changed hands for US$1.2m.
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