Product description
The Macallan is the most highly regarded whisky among collectors. It all started in the 1950s when the distillery directors decided to expand and sell The Macallan in a single malt version.
The following years only cemented the brand's fame, which currently achieves extremely high prices at auctions, constantly breaking its own records. The last one was in October 2019 at an auction held in London by Sotheby's, when an anonymous buyer paid £1.5 million for a bottle of The Macallan 60 years old, distilled 1926. setting another record. This sum exceeded the auction house's expectations three times. The whisky came from cask no. 263, the content of which translated into just 40 bottles, referred to in the collectors' world as the "Holy Grail of Whisky".
The Macallan 1955 presented here is unlikely to achieve a similar auction result, although potential inflation may be a factor in the price. However, this whisky offers a kind of time travel, taking us to a period when the ghosts of Stalinism were still lurking in our country, and The Macallan was owned by Roderick Kemp Trust, guaranteeing the family ownership of the distillery for the future (The Macallan debuted on the London Stock Exchange in 1968). At that time, the distillery was equipped with 6 stills, another six would not be installed until 10 years later.