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Big Dollars for Rare Macallan and Glenfiddich Single-Malts

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A rare single malt has sold at auction for over £12,000, becoming the most expensive bottle of 60-year-old Macallan ever recorded.The whisky was at the center of an international bidding war at the world's largest whisky auctions in Glasgow this week. It was sold for £12,350 to an anonymous collector from New York.

The rare whisky, a bottling of three barrels distilled between 1926 and 1928, was one of more than 700 lots in the McTear's Rare and Collectible whisky sale. Macallan whiskies routinely top the list of most highly prized vintage whiskies. Others that usually draw high prices include Glenfiddich, Bowmore, Springbank, Glenmorangie, Highland Park and Ardbeg. A 73-year old bottle of Glenfiddich, one of the rarest single-malt whiskies in the world, is expected to fetch £20,000 when it is auctioned next month. There were only 61 bottles of this vintage produced. The sale will be held at Bonhams of Edinburgh, Scotland on June 16.

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$1,300 Springbank 40 Year Single Malt

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

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Among connoisseurs of single malt Scotch, whisky from the Springbank distillery in Cambeltown is highly prized. A new rare, limited edition bottling of Springbank 40 Year Old from Ian Macleod Distillers' Chieftain's Single Malt Whisky collection is sure to be snapped up quickly. Only 398 bottles of the exceptional natural strength, natural colour and unchill-filtered whisky, distilled in 1968, are being produced at a price of €800 or about $1,300 each. the bottle rests in a silver leather-lined, piano finished, solid oak box which has been stained black and lacquered 11 times to enhance the natural wood grain. Two silver plaques on the front of the box display all the individual bottle details, as does a certificate of authenticity scroll personally signed by Antony McCallum-Caron, Chieftain's Rare Malt Manager. A neck tag hung on a silver chain features detailed tasting notes.

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