4th February, 2021 by Alice Liang
At Bonhams’ latest whisky sale, a bottle of Macallan Lalique 50 Year Old sold for HK$1,054,000, while, a 72-year-old whisky bottled by Gordon & MacPhail went under the hammer for HK$421,600.
The whisky sale was held in Hong Kong on 29 January.
The top lot was a classic Macallan Lalique 50 Year Old, which sold for an impressive HK$1,054,000, followed by Macallan Lalique Motor Car 1937 37 Year Old (HK$558,000).
The decanter of Glen Grant 1948 72 Year Old by Gordon & MacPhail was bottled in 2020 and this is the first time it has appeared at auction.
The bottle auctioned last month was numbered 88 of 290. Limited to 290 exclusive units only, the official global release of other bottles is currently scheduled for late March 2021.