Father gave his son whiskey every year: Now the Scot has auctioned the collection and is buying a house for it

A Scotch got his first bottle of scotch for his birthday as a baby.

Now he has sold the collection of the Scottish noble distillery Macallan - and is paying down his house with it.  

• A

  Scot

  gave his son a bottle of luxury whiskey for his 20-year-old birthday.

• Now the unique

  collection has come

  under the hammer.

• A collector has just paid £ 44,500 to collect the Highland liquor.

Munich -

is actually a nice thing.

Connoisseurs are talking about the most beautiful color, the right nuance of taste of Scottish Highland peat and of course the best distillery.

But

so far hardly

has

gotten rich with

.

It is different with the Scottish Matthew Robson.

Every year since his first birthday, his father Pete has given him a bottle of 18-year-old

the

distillery

.

Over the years, the father has invested a total of around £ 5,000 in the 28 bottles from 1974 to 2019.

Macallan's whiskey collection raised £ 45,000

Now the junior has sold the collection on the online platform Marklitter.com.

For 44,000 pounds, the noble collection has now gone to a foreign bidder, the whiskey broker said on Tuesday at the request of Merkur.de *, of course in the original packaging and - great honor - completely unopened.

The money has now been transferred.

The bottles should be shipped by the end of the week, Litter said.

It usually takes years before collectors have such a complete collection together.

With the edition of the staunch Schotten, this is practically overnight.  

No wonder that collectors of high-proof super

correspondingly steep turn.

In Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Berlin in particular, the uninterrupted collection of the coveted high-proofs from the Scottish highlands attracted great interest.

“That was a perfect set,” said whiskey broker and auction

operator

Whiskey: Macallan is the S-class among the Scottish single malts

But Macallan's not just any

either

.

The distillery from the Scottish

is an absolute top address in the whiskey Mecca around the Scottish Cairngorms National Park.

Many connoisseurs around the world now consider “The Macallan” to be the ultimate.

Macallen bottles are collected in a similar way to "Rolex watches or Hermes handbags," said Litter.

This is also reflected in the price.

In the past five to ten years, the value of many Macallan whiskeys has "increased massively", says industry expert Litter.

Individual bottles of particularly sought-after vintages, such as the 1958 anniversary scotch from the world-famous distillery, can be sold for £ 5,000 on the virtual counter.   

Of course, Robson Senior did not expect

that his

investment could one day bring in as much return.

One day he thought it could be very interesting "to collect 18 bottles over the age of 18 and then give my son the whiskey from the year he was born as the last bottle," he told the British

.

Over time, he then saw how the value of the collection "increased significantly".

In the case of his son, however, his father's unusual passion for collecting initially caused confusion.

It was initially a "very quirky gift," Robson told the

.

Fortunately, besides alcohol, there were other presents for my birthday.

Robson Junior wants to buy a house now.

The basis for this will come from the sales proceeds from his Macallan collection.

The 28-year-old Scot is correspondingly happy about his father's idea: "The one about the

" he said with satisfaction to the Daily Mail, "was one of the best decisions my father could make for me."