Macallan 50 Year Old ‘star’ of Bonhams auction
A bottle of The Macallan Lalique 50 Year Old has smashed its pre-sale auction estimate, fetching £21,250 in Edinburgh.
A bottle of The Macallan Lalique 50 Year Old has sold at auction for more than £20,000The expression – which was the first in the brand’s Six Pillars Collection, a collaboration between The Macallan and crystal manufacturer Lalique – was originally estimated to fetch £13,000-£15,000.
The decanter, numbered 25 of 470, was sold to an unidentified bidder at Bonhams in Edinburgh yesterday.
Meanwhile, a bottle of Glenfiddich 50 Year Old, which Bonhams claims is one of the top 10 most expensive whiskies in the world, sold for £17,000. The expression was bottled in 1991 from casks filled in 1937 and 1939.
A 50-year-old Macallan Millennium Decanter, distilled in 1949 and bottled in 1999, sold for £15,000.
Overall, Bonhams Edinburgh said its whisky sale “performed well”, selling 88% by lot, but 91% by value, totaling £219,000.
In September last year, the world’s largest collection of The Macallan Fine and Rare range sold for US$430,000 in New York, exceeding its estimate by more than US$100,000.
