GENEVA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- The world's most expensive whisky shot, bought in August for 10,000 U.S. dollars at a hotel in the exclusive St Moritz resort in Switzerland, was shown on Thursday to be fake. After being submitted to laboratory tests by Scottish whisky experts and at Oxfor...
GENEVA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The world's most expensive whisky shot, bought in August for 10,000 U.S. dollars at a hotel in the exclusive St Moritz resort in Switzerland, was shown on Thursday to be fake. After being submitted to laboratory tests by Scottish whisky experts and at Oxfor...
LONDON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The world's most expensive bottle of whisky has been sold for a record price of 848,000 British pounds (about 1.1 million U.S. dollars) at an auction in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The 60-year-old bottle of The Macallan Valerio Adami, distilled in 1926 and b...
The Macallan 1926 single malt is one of the world's most sought-after bottles of Scotch whisky. It was sold by Sotheby's on Saturday, at more than double its estimated price. The auction house's head of whisky said he had been allowed to taste "a tiny drop" of it beforehand. "It'...
Call it whisky or whiskey, it’s one of the world’s most popular spirits. Over centuries, few distilleries have truly perfected the craft. Here, Sotheby’s specialist Forrest Price digs into the history of the greatest whiskymakers across Scotland and the United States. Features Type: video...
Single Malt Whisky can rest easy, however, as the current most expensive, the Yamazaki 55-Year-Old, sits at an average price of $773,584 meaning there's still some way to go before any gin comes even close. Although it feels like gin may take some millennia before it reaches whisky's...
Price:US $7,439 Whenever the pre-fix ‘world’s most expensive’ is mentioned, Dubai isn’t too far behind. Until 2012, the glittering desert-state held the official Guinness World Record for its 27.321Macallan Whiskycocktail, served in the city’s iconic sail-shaped “seven-star”Burj Al...
The record price paid for red wine at auction currently stands at US$230,000 (£148,000) for Château Lafite’s 1869 vintage. 5. Armand de Brignac Midas – £125,000 At 30 litres the Armand de Brignac Midas is the largest and also the most expensive bottle of Champagne currently ...
Christopher Parr
Today, many of Scotland's most famous whisky regions are still located in remote parts of the country, where once-illegal stills have now become modern distilleries. Scotland is divided into six main regions:Highlands,Islands,Islay,Campbeltown,LowlandsandSpeyside. While some of these regions pertain...