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The Macallan 1926, 60 Year Old, Fine and Rare, One Bottle

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Bidding on The Macallan 1926, 60 Year Old, Fine and Rare, One Bottle

Sold

Hammer price

$1,830,000
8 bids5 biddersReserve met
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A buyer’s premium of 15% applies to the hammer price. At $1,830,000 that is $274,500, for a total of $2,104,500 excluding shipping and any applicable tax.

Consigned by

Marcus Vale

@valeandco

4.9 from 213 sales

Every consignment is checked against the house register before it is catalogued. Payment is held by Auctioneer until the lot is delivered.

Catalogue note

Distilled 1926, bottled 1986 after sixty years in a single sherry-seasoned oak cask. 75cl, 42.6% alcohol by volume. From cask 263, of which only forty bottles were ever filled.

Level and seal are excellent, the capsule intact, and the label crisp with no fading or foxing. Stored horizontally in a temperature-controlled cellar since 1994 and inspected under bond in March.

Cask 263 has become the reference point for the entire category, and the arithmetic is simple: forty bottles, some drunk, some lost, and a market that discovers a new record every time one surfaces.

Provenance

Purchased from a European private cellar, 1994; held under bond in Edinburgh since acquisition.

Condition

Mint

As issued. No signs of handling or display wear.

Condition reports are the house’s opinion, offered in good faith. Lots are sold as viewed; the absence of a remark does not imply the absence of a fault.

Bidding history8 bids from 5 bidders

  1. T••• A.Leading

    Bid

    $1,830,000

  2. G••• L.

    Bid

    $1,825,000

  3. A••• S.

    Automatic bid

    $1,820,000

  4. A••• S.

    Bid

    $1,780,000

  5. N••• K.

    Automatic bid

    $1,775,000

  6. N••• K.

    Bid

    $1,675,000

  7. P••• R.

    Automatic bid

    $1,670,000

  8. P••• R.

    Bid

    $1,650,000

Bidders are shown by initial, as they would be by paddle in the room. Bids marked “automatic” were placed by the house on a bidder’s behalf, against a maximum only they can see.

Terms of sale

Buyer's premium
15% of the hammer price, added to your invoice.
Reserve
This lot carries a confidential reserve. It will not sell below it.
Anti-snipe
A bid in the closing moments extends the clock so the room can answer.
Settlement
Funds are held on deposit while you lead, and released the moment you are outbid.