Top 10 Most Expensive Scotch in the World
10. Chivas Regal Royal Salute, 50 years old.
Price: $10,000
The
Chivas Regal 50-year Royal Salute is released in 2003 as a special
edition to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II 50 years on the throne
(coronation day in 1953). Each bottle features a hand-engraved 24-carat
gold plaque. There were only 255 bottles in the world.
9. The Macallan 1939, 40 years old.
Price $10,125
First
bottled in 1979, this peaty and powerful whiskey that comes with dried
fruit and sweet toffee flavors was re-bottled in 2002, and added to
McCallan's Fine and Rare line.
8. Glenfarclas 1955, 50 years old.
Price: $10,878
This whiskey, bottled in 2005 exactly fifty years to the day after it was
distilled, was hand-picked by George S. Grant to celebrate the birth of
his ancestor, John Grant, who bought the Glenfarclas distillery back in
1865. The entire 110 bottles sold out even before this whiskey was
released.
7. Dalmore 50 Year Old Decanter
Price: $11,000
Bottled
in 1978 into just sixty crystal decanters. Reputably one of the best
50 year old whiskey ever made, and a personal favourite of many rich
families in the world.
6. The Macallan 55 Year Old Lalique Crystal Decanter
Price: $12,500
A
celebration between two great nations and one of the finest creative
collaborations between Scotland and France, The Macallan 55 Years old
Lalique is bottled in 1910 in a perfume bottle designed by Rene
Lalique. Worldwide, only 420 decanters were released, with only one
hundred available in the United States.
5. Glenfiddich 1937
Price: $20,000
64
year old Glenfiddich, widely regarded as the oldest bottle of whiskey in
the world. This Glenfiddich's 1937 Rare Collection whiskey had only one
bottle ever produced, with the single bottle sold at a 2006 auction.
4. The Dalmore 62 Single Hiland Malt Scotch
Price: $58,000
One
of the only twelve bottles produced in 1943. The whiskey was purchased
for $58,000 at the Pennyhill Park Hotel in Surrey, where the anonymous
buyer reportedly share it with five of his lucky friends.
3. The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare
Price: $75,000
It
is rumored that a South Korean businessman paid $75,000 in 2005 for the
chance to own a bottle of this scotch, whose flavour is described as dry
and concentrated. The rumour is later confirmed by Macallan themselves.
2. Dalmore 64 Trinitas
Price: $160,100
Trinitas
is named because there are only three bottles of this whiskey been
made. This whiskey is a blend of rare stocks, containing spirits dating
from 1868, 1878, 1926 and 1939. This is the first scotch to sell for
six figures.
1. Macallan 64 Year Old in Lalique
Price: $460,000
And
here it is, the most expensive scotch in the world: The Macallan 64
Year Old in Lalique! The scotch was sold for $460,000 at an auction at
Sotheby's, New York on November 2010, breaking the record for the most
expensive whisky ever sold, and claiming the title of world's most
expensive scotch.
The special
decanter was designed and created by famed French designer Lalique, and
contains 1.5 litres of the rare "The Macallan" whiskey. The special
decanter, itself, is crafted with a unique "cire perdue", or "lost wax"
method.
Would you pay $460,000 for a bottle of ANYTHING?
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