This is because the bottle is older and rarer due to many of them being opened and drunk upon release, back in a time before scotch whisky was considered a luxury asset. The last Macallan 1966 18 ...
It said The Macallan 1926 was known to be the most sought-after Scotch whisky ... now come under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on 18 November, with an estimate of £750,000 to £1.2m.
A rare bottle of Scotch whisky has sold for a world record £1.5m at auction in London. The Macallan 1926 60-year-old single malt from cask number 263 had been estimated to sell for between £ ...