![]() ![]() “With opportunities to gather again in-person with friends and family slowly becoming more frequent, now more than ever we are seeing collectors acquire special bottles from some of the world’s most celebrated spirits producers, in hopes of sharing them with loved ones in the near future. “Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a staggering increase in demand for prized, rare whiskies – and the strong prices realised during today’s sale are a perfect illustration of this rapidly growing trend. The Macallan Double Cask 12 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Macallan, Scotland, 750ml. Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s spirits specialist, said: “We are thrilled with the results achieved for the three exceptional charitable lots presented today in our first dedicated spirits sale in New York. ![]() Proceeds from the sale will go to the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC) as part of the Cognac brand’s Unfinished Business initiative. One of only 50 bottles, the Cognac was created in celebration of Jay Z’s 50 th birthday on 4 December 2019.įurthermore, the auction saw a Masterpiece Hennessy XO decanter, designed by Frank Gehry, sell for US$18,750. The rapper donated proceeds from the sale to his charity, the Shawn Carter Foundation. The Sotheby’s auction also sold rapper Jay-Z’s personal 1969 bottle of D’Ussé Cognac – the only one to bear his signature.īottle number one of D’Ussé 1969 Anniversaire Limited Edition Grande Champagne Cognac sold for US$52,500 at the auction, and was expected to fetch between US$25,000 and US$75,000. Other sale highlights The 1969 D’Usse bottle was the only to be signed by Jay-Z Igor Boyadjian, managing director for The Macallan, said: “The funds from the auction will increase free access and develop engagement with a variety of audiences, and will support ‘Saturday on the house’, an opportunity for visitors to enjoy free admission to the Guggenheim Museum in New York on select Saturdays.” The Macallan bottle was sold to raise funds for the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Scotch brand has worked with Blake for more than 30 years. Each bottle was selected for its colourful character to represent the year Blake’s collage style moved into pop culture.Įach bottle in the collection features an original collage from Blake on the label, along with details of The Macallan’s history, community and landscape. Unveiled last month, the Anecdotes of Ages Collection comprises 13 ‘one-of-a-kind’ bottles of whisky from 1967. The bottle, which features a label designed by English artist Sir Peter Blake, was sold during a live Sotheby’s auction in New York on Saturday 13 March.Įstimated to sell for between US$125,000 and US$750,000, the lot included a 3D Blake print and a bespoke two-day VIP experience with The Macallan in addition to the bottle. Macallan is the most expensive Whiskey ever sold. The Double Cask Gold is a 2018 relaunch of the Macallan Whisky Price, which itself was released in 2012. Sotheby’s sold the A New Era of Advertising bottle from the collection Macallan Whisky Price In USA-The Macallan is a no-age-statement single malt Scotch from the house of Macallan. In 2015 Gordon & MacPhail released a 75-year-old Mortlach it called ‘the world’s most exclusive single malt Scotch whisky’.A ‘one-of-a-kind’ bottle of 1967 whisky from The Macallan’s new Anecdotes of Ages Collection sold for US$437,500 at auction. For that relatively low price, the discerning. However the Macallan 72 is not the oldest Scotch whisky to be bottled. The 12-year-old expression is a great value single malt, usually available for somewhere between 30 and 40. ‘The whisky delivers surprise after surprise as aromas of fruit follow distinctive hints of peat, all the way through to the back of the mouth, where it is finished off with a lingering hint of rich fruit and oak.’ ‘Reminiscent of a time gone by, it carries an exquisite balance of strong, sweet oak with the peaty spirit shaping its refined character. ‘For its 72 years of maturation, the deceptively light colour hints that this is not an ordinary single malt,’ said Nick Savage, Macallan master distiller. Priced at US$60,000 per decanter, that gives the entire release a combined value of US$36m.Īvailable from August 2018, the whiskies will be sold at ‘select locations’ in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as in airport retail stores and at Macallan’s new £140m distillery, which was officially opened last week.ĭistilled in the 1940s, the whisky comes in a Lalique crystal decanter, held in a case designed by Burgess Studio and handcrafted by cabinet maker NEJ Stevenson. Described as ‘a celebration of the collaboration of masters from across the fields of whisky, crystal, architecture, construction and craftsmanship’, Macallan 72 Years Old in Lalique – The Genesis Decanter, bottled at 42% abv, is limited to only 600 individually numbered decanters worldwide. ![]()
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