Product description
The Macallan is the most highly regarded whisky among collectors, although it has taken it around half a century to achieve its current position.
It all started in the 1950s when the distillery directors focused on the expansion and sale of The Macallan in a single malt version. The following years only strengthened the brand's fame, which currently achieves extremely high prices at auctions, breaking its own records - in October 2019, at an auction held in London by Sotheby's, an anonymous buyer paid £1.5 million for a bottle of The Macallan 60 years old, distilled 1926, setting another record. Judging by the auction results in recent years, it seems that breaking it is only a matter of time.
The Macallan featured here may not find a buyer in this price range in our lifetime, but it is one of the rarest bottles of whisky in our collection. This 25-year-old whisky was distilled in 1948, when the distillery was still in the hands of the Kemp family (Roderick Kemp Trust) and was known as The Macallan-Glenlivet. Our bottle was part of a batch destined for Italian importer Pinerolo. In 1948, The Macallan distilled in just six stills, which sounds rather modest compared to 36 today.