When the price of the most expensive bottle of whiskey reaches $38,000, one begins to suspect that there are forces at work besides the desire of a single-malt enthusiast to have an interesting dram from his local liquor store to sip while he watches the ballgame on television.
Indeed, that is the case. With the passing of stamp and butterfly collecting into the obscurest realms of irredeemable geekdom, accumulating (and drinking) rare, unusual and generally very old whiskies has emerged as one of the more surprising--if less than headline-generating--trends of the 21st century. Not to mention a very profitable business for the distillers.
"There wasn't even a market for this stuff a few years ago," says Jonathan Goldstein, vice president of Park Avenue Liquors in New York, which specializes in limited-edition whiskies. "It's only in recent times that we've seen these bourbon fanatics starting to come in. They're looking for the rare and hard-to-get, the limited releases, the birthday bourbons and single-barrel bourbons."
Most Expensive Whisky Ever The Macallan Fine and Rare Collection, 1926, 60 Years Old
Price: $38,000
The oldest and most sought-after of Macallan's revolutionary Fine & Rare Collection is now sold out. It is still possible to taste this totally unique Scotch whisky at the Old Homestead Steakhouse in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J. However, it sells for a nosebleed-inducing $3,300 per dram, so you had better have had a good run at the craps table.
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