Macallan 1926 'holy grail' of whisky fetches £1m at auction... for just ONE bottle

Macallan 1926 'holy grail' of whisky fetches £1m at auction... for just ONE bottle

I'll drink to that! The 'holy grail' of whisky fetches £1m at auction... for just ONE bottle

  • The Macallan 1926 Fine And Rare 60-year-old Scotch whisky sold for £1million
  • Bottle was one of only 14 of its kind from the Moray distillery’s legendary cask
  • It was the leading lot in a 1,958-bottle collection sale by late-American businessman Richard Gooding
  • A bottle of whisky dubbed the 'holy grail of single malts' has sold for £1million.

    The Macallan 1926 Fine And Rare 60-year-old is the first bottle to hit the landmark figure in an online-only sale.

    The bottle was one of only 14 of its kind from the Moray distillery’s legendary cask number 263, the world’s most celebrated whisky cask.

    The Spanish oak sherry hogshead was filled in 1926, and the drink was allowed to mature for 60 years before it was bottled in 1986.

    Only 40 bottles were ever produced including a dozen with labels designed by the renowned pop artist Sir Peter Blake, best known as the co-creator of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.

    The Macallan 1926 Fine And Rare 60-year-old is the first bottle to hit the landmark figure of £1million in an online-only sale by Perth-based Whisky Auctioneer

    The world record for a bottle of whisky at auction stands at £1.2million (nearly £1.5million with premiums) for a bottle from the s ..

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