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The rise and rise of the world s best whisky
The best whisky in the world has risen in value by 564% in the past decade. Martin Green, Bonhams Whisky specialist in Edinburgh, takes a look at what makes whisky such an exciting investment
Published: Monday 25th January 2021
In the course of a few dizzying hours at a Bonhams whisky auction in Hong Kong in May 2018, the world auction record for a bottle of whisky was broken not once but twice.
First, a bottle of the Macallan Peter Blake 1926-60 year old sold for £816,983; shortly afterwards, The Macallan Adami 1926-60 year old made £848,112.
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Last October the US$1.9 million sale of a bottle of The Macallan single malt Scotch distilled in 1926 the highest price ever paid at auction for a bottle of spirit made even those who never touch the stuff sit up and take notice. At 700ml, it contains about 45 pours, making each dram worth around US$42,000. Martin Green, Whisky Specialist for the storied Bonhams auction house in Edinburgh, Scotland, and one of the world’s foremost experts, was, however, hardly surprised.
“For the past two years, Scotch whisky has been making headlines around the world as never before,” Green tells us. “Records have tumbled at such a pace that, at one point, Bonhams broke the world record for a bottle of whisky at auction twice in the same sale,” in Hong Kong in May 2018 both of them also Macallans from 1926.