It’s not about the taste.
A 750-milliliter bottle of single-malt 60-year-old Macallan 1926 whisky sold last week at Bonham’s in Edinburgh for a record price of 848,800 pounds, or just over $1.1 million.
But no one expects it will hold the record for long, because less than 24 hours after it sold — for the price, the New York Times notes, of a small Scottish castle — Christie’s unveiled a bottle of even rarer single-malt 60-year-old Macallan whisky, which is set for auction in November and will likely go for even more. Читать дальше...