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Apr 2023
Harrogate auction house sees 50 year old bottle of whisky fetch £12,000
The next time someone at work gifts you a bottle of whisky, you might want to think twice before you open it.
A bottle of whisky that was consigned to Tennants Auctioneers in Harrogate has fetched £12,000 hammer price at auction.
The seller had been given it by a colleague a number a years ago and hadn’t realised how much it had appreciated in value.
The bottle was a Macallan 1940, 50 Year Old Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky — one of the most collectable whiskies which has dramatically increased in value over the last 20 years.
The whisky was distilled on January 1 1940 and laid down by Macallan for 30 years, before the cask was bought by independent bottlers Gordon and Macphail.
They moved the cask to their warehouses in Elgin where it remained maturing for another 20 years before being bottled. It formed part of Gordon and Macphail’s Speymalt range and was sold with its original presentation case and certificate.
Macallan still continues to dominate the whisky market at auction.
The bottle was sold at Tennants' fine wine and whisky sale at its auction house in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, on Friday.
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