A bottle of whiskey for 1.5 million euros

A bottle of Macallan whiskey is scheduled to be auctioned at Sotheby’s. The starting price is 1.5 million euros.

Ava Gardner, Mark Twain and Winston Churchill all held the value of good whiskey in high esteem. But today they might disagree after hearing the valuation of a 97-year-old Macallan whiskey to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London.

The auction will take place on November 18 and the whiskey is estimated to fetch between £750,000 and £1.2 million, meaning a single 25ml shot will fetch between £25,000 and £40,000.

The 1926 Adami is the oldest Macallan ever produced, bottled after sixty years of aging in sherry casks. A total of 40 bottles were produced in 1986, but they did not reach the market. Instead, they were offered to Macallan’s leading clients, and each time they come up for auction, the price per bottle breaks another record.

“The Macallan 1926 is the whiskey every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own,” said Johnny Fowle, head of Sotheby’s spirits department. “I am particularly pleased to be offering a bottle at Sotheby’s for the first time since we set a record in this category four years ago.”

According to the Guardian, this a rare bottle of whiskey is unlikely to be opened for consumption. Of the 40 precious bottles, only one was opened, one was missing and one was presumably destroyed during the 2011 Japan earthquake.

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