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MACALLAN 1926 60YO SOLD FOR £825,000, 31.25% LOWER THAN LAST ACHIEVED

By Siulan Law Mathews DipWSET

18-2-2020



Source: Whisky Auctioneer

One of the 40 bottles of Macallan 1926 60YO, dubbed the holy grail of fine and rare whiskies, has just been sold at hammer for £825,000. This price is 31.25% lower than the £1.2m achieved by another bottle sold last October in London.

It is not immediately clear if the COVID-19 situation has dampened bidding interests especially those from China and Asia.

This bottle of Macallan 1926 60YO, the flagship item in the Perfect Collection being auctioned, carries the Valerio Adami label, while the bottle sold last October carries the Macallan Fine and Rare label.


Source: Whisky Auctioneer

Only 40 bottles of 1926 Macallan 60YO were ever released, of them only twelve have Valerio Adami designed labels and one was said to have been lost in the 2011 earthquake in Japan. This compared to 14 bottles which have the Macallan Fine and Rare labels.

Other iconic items in the collection include Springbank 1919 50YO, sold for £180,000, and Macallan 1928 Anniversary Malt 50YO, sold for £92,000.

The Perfect Collection, owned by the late American drinks bottling entrepreneur Richard Gooding, has 3,900 bottles and is believed to be the largest private whisky collection ever to be offered for public sale.

The first part of the Perfect Collection online auction finished yesterday, results are now displayed on Whisky Auctioneer’s website. The second part of the auction will be held from 10 to 20 April.

Pre-auction estimates predicted that the Perfect Collection as a whole will fetch £8m.

(the writer can be contacted at: info@thewinechronicle.com)

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