Een dram Macallan voor GBP 26.300,- ?
Geplaatst: 25 Sep 2010, 13:55
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Macallan dram sells at auction for £26,300
Businessman in Asia breaks record paid for shot of malt
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”.
Macallan dram sells at auction for £26,300
Businessman in Asia breaks record paid for shot of malt
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”.
