![Bottle photos LR Ardbeg 1967 Signatory Vintage 30 Year Old / Dark Oloroso Butt # 578, Glenfiddich 1937 Rare Collection 64 Year Old, Springbank 1919 50 Year Old, The Macallan 1926 Valerio Adami 60 Year Old, The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60 Year Old 75cl / US Import, Glenfiddich 1936 Peter J Russell, The Balvenie 1937 Pure Malt 50 Year Old 75cl / Milroy's of Soho, Bowmore 1967 Largiemeanoch 12 Year Old [detail]. Photo © Peter Dibdin Photography, location: Gleneagles Hotel American Bar](https://images.prismic.io/barnebys/8a3a6f4d-e197-4674-99c6-1c6b82381226_Cover.jpg?auto=format,compress)
Monday 22 February 2021 will remain a historic date in the world of auctions and whisky: the total final price for the Whisky Auctioneer’s ‘Perfect Collection’ reached a staggering figure of $9,100,000 (£6.4 mil), making the collection of 3,900 bottles the most valuable private collection ever sold in a single whisky auction.
The auction saw 1,557 bidders from 54 countries participate. The most expensive bottle in the collection, the Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare 60 Year Old, sold for a hammer price of £1 million, the first time a single bottle of whisky has reached such a figure in an online-only auction.
The first part of the auction, in February 2020, had seen the sale of the Macallan 1926 Valerio Adami 60 Year Old for the already considerable sum of £825,000.
These results are yet another example of how online auctions are increasingly shaking the traditional secondary market, attracting the attention of high-value investors and collectors around the world.
