$2 million bottles of Scotch are so last year.
Last summer, a Singapore-based rare whisky seller launched its new online platform, and hosted what was hailed at the time as the first-ever online Scotch whisky cask auction. Cask 88 called the auction "Maritime Malts," and it featured eight casks of single-malt that were all from distilleries located near the Scottish coast. Three months later, it held a second auction, "Fertile Heartlands," that focused on whiskies from parts of Scotland where barley is farmed.
That's probably the truth: last November, a 30-year-old Macallan in an ex-Sherry hogshead set a new world record for a single cask of whisky, selling for HK$4.4 million at an auction in Hong Kong. The Drinks Business, the whisky in the cask could eventually become 261 individual bottles, and the $2,200-per-bottle value was itself a record for Macallan.described whisky casks as perhaps the "most spirited investment a whisky connoisseur can make," there are some things to consider before clicking the Place Bid button, starting with where and how it will be stored.
There's also the cost of gauging it, the price of getting periodic samples of the whisky, the fees for unracking and re-racking the casks, and the additional charge for a different barrel, should you decide to transfer it during its continued aging process.
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