Bottle of luxury Scotch whisky sells for over $2M at auction, breaking records (Macallan 1926)

Fox Business ^ | 11/25/23 | Timothy Nerozzi

[Chode]

Huifkar blended scotch. It’s good for the shakes.

[Disambiguator]

A five liter plastic jug of whisky?

LOL

[Chode]

It’s good for the shakes.

[NewHampshireDuo]

When I was young (but not too young), if I was sick my father would give me a shot of whiskey at bedtime.

[Paal Gulli]

This is one way "the rich" park their money tax-free. They monetize something by paying 10,000x more for it than it's actually worth. Then 10 years later some other rich guy gives the original investor a 25% profit on his investment, and the beat goes on.

That's how doodles and kindergarten finger paintings like these come to be "worth" tens of millions:

Jackson Pollock's No. 5, $148 million

Mark Rothko's No. 10, $81.9 million

Buy it for a hyper-inflated price and it becomes a tax shelter. Then the art critics (who on the whole lack the talent to create something even this child-like) proclaim it a masterpiece and, Voilà, it is transformed into art.

For that much money you'd think they could go to the effort to think up a catchy title for it, huh?

[William of Barsoom]

I was born & raised in a snooty Connecticut suburb of NYC.

The scotch there flows like a large creek.

Never developed a taste for it, though. (I like bourbon [Maker’s Mark,] and rum, [Jane Barbancourt] and beer — most decent lables.

So what’s a good scotch for a non-scoth lover?
(Yeah, yeah: Crown Royal — but is even THAT one
all that tasty?) Mere high price tag doesn’t impress
me as a good quality indicator, necessarily...

[ccmay]

A five liter plastic jug of whisky?

With an EZ-Pour spout to fill up that empty bottle of MacAllan 18 your brother in law is always sneaking a tug from…

[PerConPat]

Well, I'm part Scotch-Irish; so the extra seven or so bucks a bottle could explain my preference.

[ought-six]

Understandable.

[CodeToad]

This makes EVERYTHING I drink seems cheap and irresponsible. :)

I’ve got a nice bottle of Scotch that is bottle 79 of 100 I am cracking open for a certain special occasion, but it is no where near what some might consider expensive. I drank bottle 34 for a previous special occasion, and it was damned good and worth every penny. I’ve got a sleuth working on another bottle for a future occasion.

[CodeToad]

““Everybody guzzles Jack sometime....””

I had a boss way back in my Air Force days that said Jack was a “sippin’ whiskey.” Of course, if you played that “sippin” in fast forward, there was a lot of guzzlin!

[algore]

I have a bottle of cognac from opening day of Maxim’s de Paris in New York.

not going to open or drink it

looks somewhat like this

[Responsibility2nd]

Oh. Well if you’re not gonna drink it...

Can I have it?

[algore]

Of course, if you are the high bidder whenever or my kids (more likely) sell it at auction

[CtBigPat]

Scottish Whisky Distillery Tour Guide Doesn't Give A F**k

[PerConPat]

👍

[Noumenon]

Looks like transmission fluid.

[Chode]

prolly tastes like it tooo...

[Graybeard58]

I am dumbfounded how ANYONE could disrespect money so much as to make a purchase like that for booze...their are some really stupid humans running around.

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Like my dad told me, “some people have more money than brains.”

[South Dakota]

Everybody guzzles Jack sometime....

Before or after I lick my @$$