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Episode: Rare bottle of whisky expected to fetch up to $1.4 million
Description: A rare whisky bottle was expected to fetch up to £1.2 million ($1.4 million) at Sotheby’s in November. Only 10 full bottles of this liquor from 1926 remain.
This is a bottle of The Macallan Adami 1926, one of 40 bottles of whisky released in 1986. Matured for 60 years in sherry casks, the bottles were not sold to the public, but to The Macallan’s top clients, according to auction house Sotheby’s.
“This is the Macallan 1926, specifically the Valerio Adami edition, with the label designed by the Italian artist Valerio Adami,” says Jonny Fowle, global head of whisky at Sotheby’s.
“This is one of the oldest vint...