Whisky Advocate: Is Dalmore Set To Rival Macallan For Auction Prices?

No whisky today is as collectible as Macallan: It’s the only brand to break the $1 million-mark for a single bottle—multiple times—and even its less high-achieving offerings consistently sell for several times the value of a luxury sports car. But a Highland single malt Scotch recently showed it can demand the same astronomical hammer prices as Macallan: Dalmore.

At a sale ending on May 28, Sotheby’s, London set a new auction record for the distillery, when two bottles of Dalmore 62-year-old fetched more than half a million dollars combined. Separate private collectors from Asia paid equal amounts for Dalmore 62-year-old The Mackenzie and Dalmore 62-year-old The Cromarty, bottles No. 2 and No. 5, respectively, from an original series of twelve bottles named after significant elements of Dalmore and its history.

“Having not one, but two of these bottles in a single sale made history, and the outstanding result achieved on both bottles shows that the market for whisky collecting is very much alive,” said Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s spirits specialist. Whisky Advocate has the full story.—Jonny McCormick

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