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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.
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
LONDON (AP) — A bottle of Scotch whisky billed as “the most sought-after” in the world sold Saturday for almost 2.2 million pounds ($2.7 million), an auction record for a bottle of wine or spirits. Just 40 bottles of The Macallan 1926 were bottled in 1986 after being aged in sherry casks for 60 years. Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesThe bottle sold Saturday is the first to have undergone reconditioning by the distillery ahead of auction. The final price of 2,187,500 pounds ($2,714,250) includes a charge known as the buyer’s premium on top of the sale price of 1.75 million pounds. The price well exceeded the pre-sale estimate of 750,000 pounds to 1.2 million pounds.
Persons: Valerio Adami, , Jonny Fowle Organizations: Sotheby’s Locations: Sotheby’s, London, Italian
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