Posted on 12/09/2007 1:30:18 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - A bottle of 81-year-old Scotch sold for $54,000 at this New York's first liquor auction since Prohibition.
An anonymous collector bought the pricey potable at Christie's sale of wines and spirits on Saturday.
The 100-lot auction sold a total of $304,800 worth of rare wine and liquor. The top lot was a collection of 729 bottles of whisky, which went for $102,000.
The $54,000 bottle was distilled at Macallan in Scotland in 1926, bottled in 1986 and rebottled in 2002.
Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933, but New York State did not allow auctions of spirits until this year.
The auction prices include Christie's 20 percent commission.
A bottle of Macallan scotch distilled in 1926 is seen here during a preview for an auction of fine Spirits at Christie's Auction House in New York, December 6, 2007. Rare spirits went for record high prices at Christie's New York auction house on Saturday with the 1926 Macallan Scotch selling for $54,000. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
They put it in that bottle in 2002 an slapped a 1926 label on it? Someone is more trusting than am I.
One sip. Is that too much to ask?
I read about one of these buyers once. He invites friends over an they drink the whole bottle in one evening.
My hubby LOVES Macallan. I do need to get him a bottle of 18 year old for Christmas. But 81 year old? Waaayyyy too pricey.
sounds like eye dropper territory for me.. a few drops for $100.. liquid gold. it would be a special treat to crack a bottle like that, a fine cigar, a fire,
I didn't know he was for sale..
(Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
A bottle of straight rye whiskey made from a recipe by
George Washington, the first U.S. president, is seen here
during a preview for an auction of fine Spirits at Christie's
Auction House in New York, December 6, 2007. Rare
spirits went for record high prices at Christie's New York
auction house on Saturday with one bottle of 1926
Macallan Scotch selling for $54,000.
This man, for a time, was one of the most popular guys on the planet, it seemed. I’ve never had smoother whiskey in my life, and mourn each time I open my bottle, realizing that when that’s gone, that’s it. But I’ve toasted the new year with my wife for five years now, and it looks like it’ll survive to 2010.
It is a good thing to share one’s bounty.. Cool find indeed. smooth is good too.
So its 60 year aged scotch. Sitting in a bottle does not add to the "age".
That’s the Spirit! ping!
(I’m not a Scotch drinker, myself, although my father has occasionally shared a tasty drop of single malt. But this is really cool, because it’s so old!)
As well he should!
Good stuff like that deserves to be appreciated. The master distillers that created that fine beverage didn’t do so in the thought that it would forever languish in a bottle, passed back and forth at auction by mercenary souls intent on maximizing profits.
That fine scotch needs begs for the palate of a person who can truly appreciate the wonder of its existence.
Oh, did I happen to mention I would be willing to volunteer?
It's good to have an old bottle of scotch around...
I drink a whole bottle of Paddy meself in one evening and it don't cost me $54,000! That's the liquor tab for a decade!
I worked in a “Cooper’s shed” of a major distillery in college. The casks have to be “sweat” before one can work on them. The average casks yields about a pint of the smoothest booze this side of heaven that oozes from the wood.
Every guy in there had a “coffee flask” in his lunch box. They had a “Merry Christmas,” I can tell you. I got to bring home a couple of pints.
You can’t buy that kind of booze anywhere. It was like mother’s milk. Sigh...
Your mother was a heavy drinker, then? That might be significant, in the big picture ...
That’s a matter of speech, Mrs. Tax. She did like her beer, though.
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Just goofing with you, Frank. I’m sure your mother was a paragon in every way, having produced your august self.
OldTax-lady is fond of beer, too.
Two Mormon Missionaries came to the door tonight and I asked them to return another time. Any aces you know that I can play? I’m not big on post-Biblical Revelation for one...
F
We do share an equal delight in wine. I do believe it is the perfect vegetable. It goes with all of my meals and makes them taste great!
I am going to delve back into the Pinot Noir’s again.
F
Show them the Scotch. Oh...maybe not.
Offer them a Guinness.
When Mormon missionaries come here, I let the children talk to them. Once they’ve exhausted all the stories about everyone’s brothers and sisters and Scout troops, I announce that it’s lunchtime (suppertime, time to leave for Scouts) and wish them a Nice Day.
Catholic Answers probably has an article on dicussions with Mormons. www.catholic.com
We’ve got a Sebeka Pinotage, again, which we’re going to drink if the French Onion Soup is *ever* ready. Der Prinz should have read the recipe through hours ago, and realized it was going to take hours ...
How diabolical! It’s precisely what I’ll do!
;-o)
My brother-in-law ADORES French Onion soup! The funny thing is, he just had it recently for the first time!
The best place for it is local bistro near here and he pleads to return every chance he can for the soup! Amazing.
The Missionaries will have to explain the Trinity for me in detail. That should take a few years...
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I like plain onions-in-beef-broth soup. Don’t know how I’ll feel about this production, *if* it’s ever done ...
I finished a day of chores outside, and just poured myself a glass of Talisker. This was the first thread I opened. Wow!
I’m having more wine. Be back when I wake up!
I have an unopened bottle of Chivas Bro’s “Royal Salute”, purchased in 1981. It’s a 21 year old blend, casked in 1960.
I’ll sell it for half of that!
I’ll just bet that I’d have found a way to sell a portion of 19 casks, without the Fed’s worming their way into the picture.
First trick is to establish that I’m not “In the business of selling spirits”.
1860 vintage? I’d say its a private sale of antiques!!
Buenas noches! The soup was good. Mucho queso.
(I’m protesting the French by eating my sopa de cebollas en Espanol.)
It is pretty cool indeed!
Prithee, why ist thou protesting France? They have installed a tough “governement” in Sarkozy.
Ca vas?
Francois
Mon coeur longues pour la bouillabaise!
I forgot why I was protesting France. It might have been because cheese is fattening.
I’m protesting Zimbabwe by not eating calamari!
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