London CNN —For those who appreciate the finer tipples in life, a bottle of the world’s “most sought-after Scotch whisky” sold for more than £2.1 million ($2.7 million) Saturday at Sotheby’s in London. This bottle of The Macallan 1926, is one of 12 that were labelled by Italian painter Valerio Adami. Tristan Fewings/Getty ImagesAhead of the sale, Sotheby’s head of whisky Jonny Fowle told AFP that he had tried a small sample. This bottle is also the first of The Macallan 1926 bottles to have undergone reconditioning, carried out by The Macallan Distillery in Scotland before the auction. Of the unlabelled, one was hand painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon, and became the first bottle of whiskey to surpass £1 million ($1.2 million) when it sold in 2018 for £1.2 million ($1.5 million), the auction house said on its website.

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Persons: Sotheby’s, Valerio Adami, Tristan Fewings, Jonny Fowle, it’s, ”, Sir Peter Blake, Michael Dillon Organizations: London CNN, AFP Locations: Sotheby’s, London, Italian, Scotland, Irish