Rare World Record: The price of a barrel of whiskey distilled in 1988 and containing 374 liters, was recently set at an unprecedented price of $ 1,295,500 at the Hammer Whiskey sales site.
This is double the previous record of $ 574,000 for a rare 2021 barrel of McAllen Distillery from 2021.
"From the moment this barrel went into bidding on the site we knew there was real potential here for a high price," said Daniel Milan, co-founder of the online sales site.
"To come across an old-fashioned 34-year-old barrel in this quality and level is very rare, especially since whoever aged the barrel and kept it is a famous distillery like McAllen. So there was worldwide attention to this barrel and it was very exciting at the auction house Once, "he added.
The man who bought the barrel in 1988 for $ 5,000 left it to age in the warehouses of the McAllen Distillery in Scotland.
The barrel, which underwent one distillation (single malt), was forgotten and aged for all these years until it was recently found by the distillery.
The owner of the barrel that collected it uploaded it to the Whiskey Hammer sales site, where the sale began to gain momentum until it was sold for an unprecedented amount of over $ 1 million by an anonymous American buyer.
To save you the calculation, the same rich buyer will be able to bottle from it 534 standard bottles of 70CL whiskey, with the starting price of each bottle, if not considered an additional profit but only dividing the number of bottles by the price, will be about $ 2,500.
Originally posted on dailymail
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