Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s spirits specialist, said: “After launching Sotheby’s spirits business last year, this segment of the wine and spirits market has seen the fastest growth, not least during these past six months, with three new world auction record prices, and an increase in buying and bidding from both new and young collectors. This year’s offering will present 190 lots of Scotch, Japanese and Irish whiskies, estimated to sell for £800,000 (US$1m) in total. On 31 October 2020, Sotheby’s will offer The Ultimate Whisky Collection Part II as part of a larger sale. The sale was Sotheby’s first spirits offering from a single owner. During the sale, a bottle of Macallan 1926 60-year-old Scotch whisky set a new world record after fetching £1.5m (US$1.9m). The first part of The Ultimate Whisky Collection fetched £7.6 million/US$9.8m in total when the auction, comprised of 391 lots, concluded in October 2019. The Ultimate Whisky Collection Part II will include 20 bottles from The Macallan Fine & Rare range Most of the time, a whisky is blended from different distilleries hence the name blended scotch, but if a malt whisky is produced in a single distillery, we get something extraordinary called a single malt.Ĭheck out our impressive selection of scotch whiskies, find your new favorite in the Top 10 scotch whiskies, or explore our treasury of rare & hard to find scotch whiskies.Auctioneer Sotheby’s is gearing up to sell the second part of The Ultimate Whisky Collection and a new Macallan range comprising of six single malts aged over 40 years. Malt whisky is made of malted barley, and grain whisky uses other grains like corn or wheat. (The type of grain used determents the type of the scotch.) Scotch is the most popular whisky in the world and is considered the king of them all! There are five whisky regions in Scotland (six if you count the not officially recognized Islands), and each of them produces spirits with unique properties and distinct tasting notes. Only 24,000 bottles of this whisky are available worldwide. The finish is mellow yet complex, with layers of vanilla, toffee and butterscotch mingled together. Glenfiddich The Original as a fresh and fruity aroma, with hints of oak, spices, buttered biscuits citrus and caramel on the palate. ![]() It’s really showing the pioneering that Glenfiddich was doing back in the 60’s and that we’re continuing today.” “Many talk about it and give us the credit for that, and it’s great to actually go back into our archives and see all of those elements and recreate them for a new audience now. “When you go to the distillery and see all of the amazing things we’ve done, one of the things we haven’t really talked about a lot is the role Glenfiddich played in creating the single malt category,” said Andy Nash, Scotch Whisky category director for William Grant & Sons USA. The bottles in this feature are produced using the same recipe and specifications as the 1963 whisky, and are labeled to pay homage to the original whisky. The 1963 single malt - then called straight malt - helped establish single malt scotch whisky as a distinct category in the United States. Glenfiddich The Original 1963 Single Malt Scotch Whisky was inspired by the first Glenfiddich Single Malt that the distillery released in the United States in 1963. Today, Grant’s passion, determination and pioneering spirit continue to guide Glenfiddich Distillery, which is stewarded by the fifth generation of the Grant family. After a year of hard labor, the first drop of whisky fell from the distillery’s copper-pot stills on Christmas Day 1887. In 1886, William Grant, along with the help of his nine children and a single stone mason, began construction of the Glenfiddich Distillery, situated in the Speyside region of Scotland. About Glenfiddich The Original 1963 Single Malt Scotch Whisky
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