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The hundred dearest
One hundred of the highest reported sales. The first is a private sale of a set, as the seller reported it. The auction record for a single bottle is the Macallan 1926 Adami. A hammer price is not the same as a result with the buyer’s premium. Sets and outsized bottles are marked. This is not a complete audit, and it is not what a bottle would fetch tomorrow.
- 01
The Craft Irish Whiskey Co. Emerald Isle
Private sale · 2024
Private sale. One of seven sets, sold with a Fabergé egg.
$2.8 million
- 02The Macallan 1926 60 Year Old, Valerio Adami
Sotheby's, London · 18 Nov 2023
With buyer's premium. Auction record for a bottle of whisky.
£2,187,500
- 03
The Macallan Fine & Rare 1926 60 Year Old
Sotheby's, London · 24 Oct 2019
With buyer's premium. Guinness also published $1,811,250. Same cask as the Adami, plain Fine & Rare label.
£1,452,000
- 04
The Macallan Fine & Rare 1926 60 Year Old
Whisky Auctioneer · 22 Feb 2021
With buyer's premium. The hammer was £1 million. Another Fine & Rare bottle from the 1926 cask.
$1,548,020
- 05
The Macallan 1926 60 Year Old, Michael Dillon
Christie's, London · Nov 2018
Hammer price. Reported at the time as about $1.53 million. The only bottle painted by Michael Dillon.
£1,200,000
- 06
The Intrepid, 311-litre Macallan 32 Year Old
Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh · 25 May 2022
Large format, about 311 litres, reported as about $1.39 million. An independent bottling, not a 70cl bottle.
£1,105,000
- 07
£848,750
- 08The Macallan 1926 60 Year Old, Valerio Adami
Bonhams, Hong Kong · 18 May 2018
With buyer's premium. Also published as HK$8,636,250 and $1,100,197.
£814,081
- 09The Macallan 1926 60 Year Old, Valerio Adami
Whisky Auctioneer · 17 Feb 2020
Hammer price, before the buyer's premium.
Hammer $1,073,366
- 10
Yamazaki 50 Year Old, Club Natsume
Bonhams, Hong Kong · 30 May 2026
With fees. HK$8,250,000. A one-off bottling for a Nagoya club.
About $1.05 million
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Rare releases
No. 01 · Single Malt
The Macallan 1926 60 Year Old, Valerio Adami
The Macallan
Released
1986
Approx. value
Millions, approx.
Studio portrait for this listing
No. 02 · Japanese
Yamazaki 55 Year Old
Yamazaki
Released
2020
Approx. value
Above £50,000, approx.
Studio portrait for this listing
No. 03 · Japanese
Karuizawa 1960
Karuizawa
Released
2013
Approx. value
Six figures, approx.
Studio portrait for this listing
No. 04 · Bourbon
Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year Family Reserve
Buffalo Trace (Old Rip Van Winkle)
Released
Ongoing
Approx. value
About £2,500–£8,000
Studio portrait for this listing