Sotheby’s to sell world’s most valuable and ‘most desirable’ whisky

Sotheby’s is offering “the world’s most valuable whisky”, a very rare bottle of The Macallan 1926, a bottle of which has previously sold for £1.5million.  Only forty bottles of The Macallan Adami 1926 – the oldest Macallan vintage ever produced – were bottled in 1986, and these were offered to the whisky brand’s top client rather than being made available to purchase. Although rare for any of these bottles to come to auction, the times they have done have resulted in extraordinary results – with three different variations of the bottles breaking auction records on three different occasions. This is the first time a bottle of the whisky has come to market since the world record price was achieved in 2019, and will go under the hammer in London on 18 November, with a pre-sale estimate of £750,000 – £1.2 million. Advance bidding will open on 1 November. Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s global head of spirits, called The Macallan 1926 “the one whisky that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own”, saying he was extremely excited to bring a bottle to a Sotheby’s auction for the first time since the auction house set the record for this vintage four years ago. The whisky has been aged in sherry casks for six decades, but this is the first bottle to have undergone reconditioning by The Macallan Distillery ahead of being presented at auction. This process involved replacing both the capsule ( a swatch of which was taken