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Craven
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 Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: One dram of Macallan sells for £26300 |
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I was just reading in the Press & Journal website that one dram of a 64 year old Macallan has sold for an incredible £26300 at a charity auction in Taipei
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A dram of Scotch whisky has been sold at auction in Asia for a record £26,300, it emerged yesterday.
Glass-for-glass, the price paid in Taipei for a 10cl (0.17pint) shot of a 64-year-old Macallan - the oldest and rarest expression of the single malt - shattered the previous world record.
Had the entire contents of the 1.5 litre (2.6pints) decanter been sold at the same rate, they would have fetched nearly £400,000.
On the basis of a standard 70cl (1.2pint) whisky bottle, the buyer would have forked out £184,155.
The world record for a bottle of Scotch is £29,400, paid at an auction in 2007 for a 19th century Bowmore.
That was for a 75cl (1.3pint) bottle, which works out at £3,920 for a 10cl dram.
Announcing its coup yesterday, Macallan Distillers said the sale in Taipei was the sixth of a series in a charity campaign to bring clean and safe drinking water to developing nations.
Earlier auctions of the whisky in 10cl lots took place in Paris, London, Moscow, Hong Kong and Seoul. They raised around £42,730, with a top price of around £11,100 being paid for a single serving.
The new total of nearly £70,000, including the Taipei sale, will fund more than 17 projects to provide water for in excess of 5,000 people worldwide. Next stop on the round-the-world charity drive is Shanghai on Friday.
The tour then moves to Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka and Beverly Hills.
The whiskies are poured from a specially-made Lalique decanter to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rene Lalique a renowned glass designer. It will be auctioned in November to round off the fundraising. Lalique pieces have sold for nearly £200,000.
The Macallan is produced near Craigellachie on Speyside by Glasgow-based company Edrington Group.
The buyer was last night identified as a "businessman and Macallan lover". |
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Martin G
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| It wasnt me that bought it. |
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Big Mac
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| Well done to the Macallan, it looks like they are going to have made a lot for the water charity by the the time the bottle of The Macallan 64 year old finishes its world tour, hopefully a lot more will be raised by the end of the tour. |
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