THE WORLD’S OLDEST SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY
COMES TO AUCTION:
Sotheby’s to Provide One-of-a-kind Particular Version of
The Macallan The Attain 81 Years Previous
Proceeds to Profit The Macallan Artisan Apprenticeship Fund
LONDON, 26 September 2022 – As we speak at Sotheby’s in London, bidding opened on a one-of-a-kind particular version of The Macallan The Attain 81 Years Previous single malt, the oldest whisky ever to come back to public sale. Estimated at £110,000-200,000, the decanter is being introduced in a particular single-lot sale, which is able to near potential bidders on 5 October. Proceeds will elevate funds for The Macallan’s just lately established Artisan Collective discussion board, to learn The Macallan Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, enabling recipient companies to draw and recruit new apprentices, in addition to offering current artisan apprentices with the chance to participate in specialist coaching and improvement programmes.
Crafted from a single, sherry seasoned oak cask, The Macallan The Attain is encased in a decanter created from mouth-blown, sizzling glass, cradled on a bronze sculpture of three fingers representing characters in The Macallan’s historical past. Unveiled in February 2022, this launch from the distillery displays a unprecedented second in time, the liquid laid down throughout a interval of accelerating hardship through the Second World Struggle, simply earlier than The Macallan was compelled to shut its doorways for the primary time in its historical past.
The cupboard housing the decanter has been crafted utilizing wooden from a fallen elm tree which is believed to have been on The Macallan Property in 1940, the 12 months the spirit was distilled. The decanter itself is encased in a show cupboard lined in purple leather-based – reflecting the purple thread that has run via The Macallan’s branding because it was based nearly 200 years in the past – slightly than the standard cream leather-based which options on the unique whisky launch.
Synonymous with age within the whisky world is rarity, since not many barrels in bonded warehouses in Scotland make it to the age of fifty because of the price of alcohol evaporation. The Macallan The Attain represents the age and high quality that the world’s main spirits collectors search for in ultra-rare whiskies. The public sale report for a bottle of the world’s oldest whisky was established at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong in October 2021, when Decanter #1 of the Gordon & Macphail Generations 80-Years-Previous, bought for HK$1,500,000 / US$193,000 / £142,000.
Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s Head of Whisky & Spirits, North America and EMEA, mentioned: “Age, rarity and provenance mix to spectacular impact on this certainly one of one model of the oldest single malt whisky ever to be launched by The Macallan. That is Sotheby’s third public sale partnership with The Macallan in three years, and it’s all the time a particular occasion after we collaborate to launch a singular and unique bottle. It’s significantly particular when that bottle occurs to include the oldest whisky on the planet.”
Elizabeth McMillan, Head of Perception & Sustainability at The Macallan, mentioned: “By way of The Macallan Artisan Collective, our intention is to help and have fun artisans. Future-proofing generational expertise is of nice significance, and The Macallan holds a deep affinity with artisans and grasp makers. As modern creators, designers, and craftspeople, what unites us all is the worth that we place on provenance and our infinite ardour for locating revolutionary methods to maintain conventional crafts and generational expertise alive. By way of our work, we’re lucky to collaborate with an unimaginable community of artisans who help us annually in realising our imaginative and prescient of making superbly distinctive merchandise and experiences and compelling, inventive storytelling. The Attain is testomony to the incomparable craftsmanship and creativity that has pushed The Macallan because it was based in 1824, and that’s the reason it’s so becoming that this extraordinary whisky will fund at the moment’s era of artisans.”
The profitable bidder may even get pleasure from an distinctive distillery expertise at The Macallan Property, together with a tasting of this terribly uncommon 81-year-old single malt whisky.
The Macallan | The Attain 81 Years Previous: The World’s Oldest Whisky
Whisky Maker’s Notes – The Macallan The Attain
Color: Deep auburn
ABV: 41.6%
Nostril: Darkish chocolate, candy cinnamon, fragrant peat, plums, leather-based, pink grapefruit, redcurrant jelly and a wealthy resinous be aware.
Palate: Treacle toffee, bramble jam, liquorice, crystalised ginger, nutmeg, charred pineapple, pecans, woodsmoke.
End: Intensely wealthy, candy and smoky.
The Macallan Artisan Collective is a inventive discussion board for likeminded grasp makers to community, change concepts, innovate and collaborate through stay gatherings and digital occasions. Established in 2021, it champions and celebrates the artisans, their philosophies, information, expertise and their essential function in our native and international economies.
In the identical 12 months, The Macallan created The Macallan Artisan Apprenticeship Fund in recognition of the necessity to protect and safeguard legacy crafts, trades, expertise and values to help employment for generations to come back.
