A bottle of Macallan Valerio Adami whisky costs $1.1 Million (about N396 Million). It just shattered the record previously held by another Macallan bottle of scotch which sold for $1 Million last May. This record was broken on Wednesday.
Macallan Valerio Adami bottle of whisky was just sold in an auction in Edinburgh, Scotland. The 60-year-old bottle of Whisky fetched a world-record price of $1.1 million at a Bonhams’ whisky sale Wednesday.
The whisky was distilled in 1926 and bottled in 1986.
The bottle was designed by artist Valerio Adami as an extremely limited edition. The buyer is a U.K.-based whisky connoisseur who was in a taxi in Italy when the hammer came down, the Telegraph reports.
This particular whisky bottle which sold for $1,101,729 is significant because of its blend of rarity, vintage look and artwork, experts say.
“The Macallan 1926 60-year-old has been described as the Holy Grail of whisky,” Bonhams whisky specialist Martin Green said in a release. “Its exceptional rarity and quality puts it in a league of its own, and the world’s most serious whisky collectors will wait patiently for many years for a bottle to come onto the market.”
“All the appeal of Scotch whisky — the myth, the tradition and the romance — find its ultimate expression in this bottle,” said renowned international whisky consultant Charles MacLean.
The bottle is one of only a dozen with its design in the world. It isn’t known how many are still intact, but at least two of the 12 have been lost –– one to an earthquake in Japan in 2011 and another to consumption, according to Bonhams.
Another bottle of Macallan was sold last May by an auction house in Hong Kong for $1,057,442.37, the previous record for a bottle of Scotch.
Source: cbsnews
Waoh 1million for just a drink; it’s nice tho.
Felt bad about the one lost by earthquake that is quite a loss.
That’s great
Wow…That’s great…
wow..one million for just a drink
its expensive
is this the wine Jesus turned from water?? Even that one was shared shared free.
This wine…… VANITY!!
Smiles…..plz where can I find it so that I can devise strategies to steal just a bottle as a naija guy.
one million for just a bottle….nawaooo
one million for just one bottle …nwaoooo
What’s so special about the wine
I need one of this in my fridge right now ?
I need one of these in my fridge rn?
Please is it the price of the drink, or both the company that produced it? That money can buy so many things that will fetch one money for a lifetime. I can buy it even if I have the money.
So after drinking this wine I hope am so sure of not going hungry again?
Trust me such will only make u go so high
This is too expensive…… I rather invest the money on another thing important than buying the drink metchewww
Wow!! The money that I will use to buy many plots of land
October 7, 2018 at 11:56am
I agree that the drink must be dope but I know I can use that money to do something very important. Anyways its just an example of how some people spend just to have a drink
7 october, 2018 at 12:04
I agree that the drink must be dope but I know that I can use the money to do very important things. Anyways its an example of how some people spend just to have a drink
Hmmm because it’s whisky I came to this world to drink
The wine want carry me go heaven??? nonsense I will rather fill my house with bubble gum than that..
One million just for one bottle mtcheew nawao
1 million just 4 a bottle of drink, I better continue drinking my fanta and coke
What an expensive wine….I would rather use the money for something useful
So what’s special about this bottle Now. Just thinking though
Quite expensive tho
Money is good oooh
Nawa oo! Too costly biko.. If I drink d wine finish.. Will it wash away my sins? Lol!
Thank you
Money na good thing ooh. Chai