A Sip of Rare Whisky

Whiskypedia
Whiskypedia is the bar sized book and McLean’s eighth work to be published. MacLean isn’t just a connoisseur – he’s practically an industry legend who was elected a Keeper of Quaich, the industry’s highest accolade as well as a guest lecturer at the Smithsonian Institute. The book explores the flavor and character of every malt whisky distilled in Scotland. MacLean goes into in-depth detail of the specific customs and equipment used in each distillery.
Introductory sessions of the book offer a historical overview of the popular Scottish spirit, touching on important components about the brewing process, where flavor comes from, and why whisky varies from region to region. What follows is a Whisky-lover’s dream: comprehensive entries for the 134 whisky distilleries in Scotland-detailing everything from maturation to style and plant.
Dalmore whisky
A single bottle of Dalmore whisky has suit the first bottle of whisky ever to sell for a six figure sum after two limited edition bottles were snapped up for 159 890 each.The 64 year old Trinitas was acquired by a whisky lover in the US and a renowned whisky investor in the UK. The third bottle of the record breaking spirit will be sold at the Whisky Show in London at the end of October with exact details being kept under wraps for the time being.Trinitas contains some of the rarest and oldest stocks of whisky in the world, some of which have been maturing in the distillery on the shores of the Cromarty Firth for more than 140 years.
Dalmore 62 Single Highland Malt Scotch whisky
The classy scotch was one of only twelve bottles produced in 1943 from four single malts dating from 1868, 1876,1926 and 1939. Each was labeled with its own unique name, this one being called Matheson after the Dalmore Estate’s owner, Alexander Matheson. It was purchased at the Pennyhill Park Hotel in Surrey, where the buyer reportedly shared it with five of his friends. It has been speculated that the buyer and his friends are the only people to have actually enjoyed a bottle of the expensive vintage.
Macallan 1926
The most exclusive scotch broke a record previously held by another bottle of the same vintage, the Kildermorie,sold at auction in 2002 for $40,000 USD at McTear’s auction house in Glasgow.
Macallan Scotch
The most recent expensive scotch purchase happened at Christie’s in New York, where a bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch, bottled in 1986 and rebottled in 2002, was auctioned for $54,000. Taking place this past weekend, it was the first liquor auction allowed in New York State since the prohibition in 1920. It was expected to sell for between $20,000 and $30,000.This rare whisky is the most expensive whisky in the market. It’s called Glenfiddich 50 Year Old and it costs $16,000 for a single bottle.
This golden amber Scotch, the darkest of Glenfiddich’s whiskies, is only the second vetting of Glenfiddich 50 Year Old. The first was between 1937 and 1939, when Glenfiddich founder William Grant laid down nine casks one for each of the grandchildren who’d helped him to set up his distillery by hand.To create this whisky with its delicate rose petal, violet notes, green tobacco leaf, oak and smoke flavor two casks, each one matured for 50 years in a cool and dark warehouse, were mingled in an American oak cask by renowned Malt Master David Stewart for another six months before finally being bottled and all set for sale.