Max Goss pointed out to me that Christie's auction house sold one bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch for a mere $54,000. Bargain basement pricing! A number of news sources are reporting that this is an 81yo bottle of Scotch, which is kind of true. The Macallan 1926 was bottled in 1986 as a 60yo, which halts the maturation process. This isn't the first thim that a bottle of has gone for a mint. In 1991 a bottle went for £6,375 at auction and in 2002 another went for £20,150.
To my mind the real winner of the auction (aside from Christie's) is the person who landed the collection of 729 bottles of whisky for $102,000. That's an instant whisky library of some depth for the price of two bottles of the Macallan 1926.
