World's Most Expensive Whisky Collection up for Auction

Chazzozz on 25/01/2021 - 08:58
Last edited 25/01/2021 - 09:47 by 1 other user

https://manofmany.com/lifestyle/drinks/worlds-most-expensive…

I'd love to see someone actually drink one of these! I doubt I'd have a sophisticated enough palate to really get the most benefit out of a $1M bottle, though…unless I was Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions and had to get rid of a big chunk of money.

(I knew a guy who had drunk a bottle of Grange once, he said it was fantastic stuff and well worth the price tag. I was surprised anyone actually drank it.)

Here's a list of the top drops taken from the article linked above:

The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60-Year-Old 75cl / US Import Est. hammer price: £1,000,000 – £1,200,000 (AUD$1.7 million – $2.1 million)
The Balvenie 1937 Pure Malt 50-Year-Old 75cl / Milroy’s of Soho Est. hammer price: £18,000 – £23,000 (AUD$31,000 – $40,000)
Bowmore 1964 Black Bowmore 29-Year-Old 1st Edition Est. hammer price: £12,000 – £17,000 (AUD$21,000 – $29,000)
Bowmore 1967 Largiemeanoch 12-Year-Old Est. hammer price: £10,000 – £15,000 (AUD$17,600 – $26,000)
Dallas Dhu 1921 Private Cask 64-Year-Old #296 Est. hammer price: £5,000 – £10,000 (AUD$8,800 – $17,600)

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Comments

  • SnowDragon on 25/01/2021 - 09:55
    +3

    Imagine spending $1m on 700m of liquid when you could feed 25,000 starving children for a year, or countless other things that contributes to a greater good.
    Every single milliliter of the bottle is $1,428. If you were to do a shot of it, it would cost $42,857.

    I hate everything about this and anyone who has the type of "f**k you" money that buys it.

    If I were a billionaire I wouldn't spend my time finding the most expensive food and drink to consume - I'd be driving my high yield investment Mercedes and collecting Hungry Jacks vouchers.

    • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2021 - 10:51
      +2

      But wouldn't feeding those starving children just create more starving children and more suffering? You fix one problem but create a bigger one.

      • SnowDragon on 25/01/2021 - 10:57

        That's like saying we should give everyone COVID-19 so that those who survive would be immune. Pandemic over!

        • [Deactivated] on 25/01/2021 - 10:58

          No, it's more that Miss Teen USA contestants have wanted world peace and an end to hunger for decades and it's not that simple.

          Have a look at the long term effectiveness of the $127 million raised in the 1985 Live Aid concert.

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/24/g8.debtrelief

          I liken your response to the case of buskers in Hong Kong who bang their heads against concrete in the middle of public streets. People want to think they have a done a good thing by giving money to end them self harming temporarily, but giving money has encouraged more to do it. Just because you give money to a cause doesn't mean you have contributed to greater good.

          All the voluntourism to orphanages has created more harm than good. Good intentions, perhaps, but it has created large problems with child exploitation. The number of orphanages in certain countries has grown 500% after voluntourism, not due to need but to exploit and profit from deluded westerners thinking they are making a difference.

          You should spend your money getting a cruise volunteer experience in Cambodia if you want to feel good about yourself. Trained locals pretend they don't know how to hand pump water so passengers can teach them week after week with every single cruise.

          • SnowDragon on 25/01/2021 - 12:23
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: I understand where you are coming from now. At the end of the day it's a massive societal change that needs to occur.

            But if throwing money at a problem won't solve it, then how do you solve it? Let it continue and hope it will resolve itself rather than, as you say above, contribute to the continuation of it?

            • kizzy on 25/01/2021 - 14:32

              @SnowDragon: You could accept that some things in life are bad, sit back, relax, and have a glass of whiskey.

    • whooah1979 on 25/01/2021 - 11:32

      These bottles are collectables. People buy them as a store of value in the same way as they do a Monet or a Rembrandt. They can flip them in a few years for x gains.

      They may alternatively donate the bottles to a museum and claim a tax deduction on their other income.

  • SF3 on 25/01/2021 - 10:21

    It's not for us OzBargain types :p it's like a piece of art work, for the buyer to show s/he "made it"…

  • Cluster on 25/01/2021 - 11:59
    +2

    We're missing the really important question here….

    How well do these go with Coke?

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