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The 72-year-old bottle of whiskey fetched over $ 54,000 at auction
ElenaRivertusk 21 hours ago
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A 72 year old bottle of Glen Grant single malt whiskey from Scotland will be on display at a Bonhams auction preview in Hong Kong on Thursday, January 28, 2021.
Vincent Yu / AP
A 72-year-old bottle of Glen Grant Single Malt Whiskey from Scotland fetched more than $ 54,000 at auction in Hong Kong on Friday. It is the first time that the 1948 Glen Grant whiskey from the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail has been offered at auction.
It is number 88 out of 290 decanters bottled by the company and auctioned by Bonhams for a price of 421,600 Hong Kong dollars (USD 54,300) including the premium.
“The bottle holds particular promise – 88 is a symbolic number in Chinese culture that means ‘rich,'” Bonhams said in a press release.
The bottle had a book estimate of 300,000 to 380,000 Hong Kong dollars ($ 38,000 to $ 49,000).
The whiskey, the oldest from the Glen Grant distillery, is in a Dartington crystal carafe with an American presentation box made of black walnut wood.
Despite the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic, interest in rare whiskeys remains high. Compared to other capital goods, collector whiskey has held up well over the past 10 years with a four-fold increase in price, said Christopher Pong, wine and whiskey specialist at Bonhams.
Other whiskeys featured in Friday’s auction included a 35-year-old Hibiki whiskey from Japan in a Kutani ceramic decanter, which sold for Hong Kong dollars ($ 48,000) 372,000.
In 2018, a 60-year-old bottle of Macallan Valerio Adami whiskey got $ 1.1 million at a Bonhams auction.
Comments
Another glowing example of people with too much money.
Adds new meaning to "pissing away your money"! Don
Can you imagine dropping the damn thing?? Mopping it up and straining the glass out so you can still drink it??
No. Don
The article is written horribly. It is not a 72 year old bottle of whiskey. It is whiskey that has been aged 72 years. I would love to taste it, but way too rich for my blood.
I have spent 1/36th of that amount for a single cask aged 25 years. Was it worth it? Yes. A once in a lifetime purchase from my favorite Scottish distillery. Classes up the liquor cabinet like a complete collection of production 1911s classes up the display rack.
it is a collector thing, not a drinking thing, but if I repeat as Member-Guest champion at my club this summer it will be broken out in celebration.
Brad Steele
Bet it still tastes like old gym socks.