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 the 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 pounds for a bottle of The Macallan 60 years old, distilled in 1926, setting another record. The whisky came from the legendary cask no. 263 (ex-sherry hogshead), the contents of which in 1986 translated into just 40 bottles. Following the auction results in recent years, we wonder when the barrier of 2 million pounds will be exceeded.
Whether The Macallan, presented here, will find a buyer in this price range in our lifetime, we do not know; auction prices reflect not only supply and demand but also the global economy. The whisky was distilled in 1957, when the distillery was still in the hands of the Kemp family (Roderick Kemp Trust) and was called The Macallan-Glenlivet. It was aged in sherry casks and bottled at 80 proof (45.7% abv). Our bottle is part of a batch destined for the Italian importer Rinaldi. In 1957, The Macallan was distilled in just six pot stills, which sounds modest compared to 36 today.