Macallan 50-Year-Old Sells At Auction
A bottle of Macallan 50-Year-Old sold for $31,875 at the Bonhams auction in Edinburgh, Scotland today. The Macallan 50-Year-Old was stored in a custom Lalique crystal decanter.
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Bonhams Hong Kong Offering Full Deck Of Rare Whisky
Bonhams Hong Kong will be hosting the largest Asian whisky auction later this month when they auction off more than 200 of rare and collectible Asian whisky in The Rare Single Malt Whisky Auction. Among the items up for bid on the block include the Karuizawa 21-Year-Old in a crystal decanter along with Karuizawa Geisha […]
Colditz-Inspired Whisky On The Block
A bottle of Glen Mohr whisky will be put up for auction later this month but what makes this bottle special is that is the only one remaining – of 1500 produced – of a special batch made to commemorate British officer Major Pat Reid. Reid was said to be a fan of whisky and […]
Constantine Attracts Big Money
As expected, people threw big money at Constantine and after the flurry of money was over – Constantine went for $631,850 to the highest bidder [and no, we don’t imply the usage of marijuana]. Constantine, as you may recall from WC’s article a little over a week ago, is the name of one of the […]
Shipwrecked Whisky Resurfaces At Auction
When the SS Politician sank in 1941 near the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, it went down with several bottles of whisky – 28,000 cases to be exact – never making it to its ultimate destination of Jamaica. Some of those bottles were lost forever but many others […]
Macallan Decanter Going Up On The Block
If you think you may have a fat enough wallet, Macallan is putting up its largest ever crystal decanter up on the auction block next week. Only four six-liter crystal decanters of this size were commissioned by The Macallan – each one named after a Roman emperor – two have been kept by the company, […]
Mary Quant: Whisky Fashionista
Whisky is becoming more and more fashionable and no more proof is needed of that than the recent auction of a bottle of 27-year-old Springbank Whisky signed and designed by fashion icon Mary Quant going off at auction for $3,811. The whisky was bottled in 1993 to commemorate a charity bike ride near Mount Everest […]