The record for the most expensive wine or spirit sold at auction was broken by a rare bottle of whisky, which was bought for $2.7 million. Scotch whisky in the form of the highly sought-after Macallan 1926 single malt bottle can be found worldwide.

On Saturday, Sotheby’s sold it for over twice its projected price.

The head of whisky at the auction firm said he’d been given “a tiny drop” to sample it before.

“It’s very rich, it’s got a lot of dried fruit as you would expect, a lot of spice, a lot of wood,” Jonny Fowle told the AFP news agency.

The whisky was one of just 40 bottled in 1986, having matured for 60 years in dark oak sherry casks. It is said that some of the forty bottles were given to The Macallan’s most prestigious customers rather than being made available for purchase.

Additionally, there have always been amazing outcomes from the auctions of any of the bottles over the years; in 2019, a bottle that was identical went for £1.5 million.

Mr. Fowle stated in an interview last month that The Macallan 1926 “is the one whisky that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own” in the lead-up to the auction.

“It’s not a whisky to take lightly. It’s a rich, rich dram, but it is incredible,” said Jonny Fowle from Sotheby’s

The 40 bottles from the 1926 cask, according to Sotheby’s, have various labels on them.

A total of fourteen bottles were adorned with the recognisable Fine and Rare labels, while twelve bottles bore the label of the renowned pop artist Sir Peter Blake.

The record-breaking bottle that was sold on Saturday was one of the 12 additional bottles that Italian painter Valerio Adami designed.

The number of bottles remaining from the original 12 of The Macallan Adami 1926 is unknown.

One is thought to have been destroyed by the 2011 Japanese earthquake, and at least one other is thought to have been opened and devoured.

(Adapted from BBC.com)

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