12/24/2023 0 Comments Macallan whiskey expensive![]() In November 2020, Bonhams Hong Kong reported the sale of Hanyu Ichiro’s Full Card Series for sold for HK$11.9 million (£1.1m), smashing its pre-sale estimate of of HK$6.38m-HK$9.78m. One of the most recent record-breaking auctions saw a Japanese whisky collection gains worldwide recognition, as well as set a new world record. While The Macallan is well known for its record-breaking achievements on the world stage, and is predictably well represented in the following line-up, bottles from Japan, and a new distillery founded in 2013 in the Scottish Highlands, are also proving their worth with collectors.Ĭlick through for a look at some of the world’s most expensive malts…Ģ. But his hammer price pales in comparison to the sale prices achieved by some of the world’s biggest and most sought after whiskies in the world. Amphlett’s story proves the potential in savvy purchases, if you can hold onto them long enough. Michael Amphlett, from Cholsey, Oxfordshire, bought a bottle of 1937 Macallan Single Malt Scotch Whisky in the late 1970s as a present for his father, costing roughly a third of his wages at the time. Predicting the future’s big selling drams is an inherently risky business, but what is clear is that the whisky investment has never been more buoyant, with returns typically outpacing wine, art and jewellery, with the value of whisky rising by 582% since 2009, according to Knight Frank’s 2019 Wealth Report.Įarlier this year, an amateur collector sold a bottle he’d bought for just £11 in the 1970s for £2,700 at auction. While it will be some years before that prediction is proven true, 2020 has certainly been tumultuous, which could well see it remembered as a “significant time for the history of the whisky industry”, the company has said. With distilleries temporarily closing due to Covid restrictions and production slowing, casks produced in 2020 are predicted to become some of the rarest and most valuable in the future, believes cask whisky investment company Whiskey and Wealth Club. ![]() Whisky is big business, and no more so than in 2020 it seems.
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