Most Expensive Scotch Whisky

A very expensive bottle of scotch was just sold in New York, prompting us to wonder at the most expensive scotch. As it happens, that wasn’t it. The most expensive bottle of scotch was a Dalmore 62 Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky, sold in 2005 to an anonymous buyer for £32,000—over $58,000 at the time of sale.

Dalmore 62 Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky

The expensive scotch was one of only twelve bottles produced in 1943 from four single malts dating from 1868, 1876, 1926 and 1939. Each was labeled with its own unique name, this one being called Matheson after the Dalmore Estate’s owner, Alexander Matheson. It was purchased at the Pennyhill Park Hotel in Surrey, where the buyer reportedly shared it with five of his friends. It has been speculated that the buyer and his friends are the only people to have actually enjoyed a bottle of the expensive vintage.

Macallan 1926

The most expensive scotch broke a record previously held by another bottle of the same vintage, the Kildermorie, sold at auction in 2002 for £25,877 (over $40,000 USD) at McTear’s auction house in Glasgow.

The most recent expensive scotch purchase happened at Christie’s in New York, where a bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch, bottled in 1986 and rebottled in 2002, was auctioned for $54,000. Taking place this past weekend, it was the first liquor auction allowed in New York state since the prohibition in 1920. It was expected to sell for between $20,000 and $30,000.

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