Most Expensive Bottles of Whisky Sold at Auction (All Time)

About This Dataset

Single malt Scotch and other whisky bottles ranked by sale price at public auction in thousands of USD. The Macallan distillery dominates the upper end of whisky auction records — its aged single malts, particularly from the 1920s through 1940s, command prices that rival fine Burgundy wine, driven by extraordinary scarcity, decades of maturation, and a collector community that treats rare whisky as an alternative asset class with genuine investment returns.

Analysis

The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare (60YO) (2,700), The Macallan 1926 Valerio Adami (60YO) (1,072) and The Macallan 1926 Peter Blake (60YO) (1,045) take the top three in Auction Price (Thousand USD) in 2020. Values run from 2,700 at the top to 65 at the bottom, a spread of 2,635. Most of that gap is between first and second alone (1,628 of 2,635); the other 7 are separated by just 1,007. Only 1 of the 8 reaches even half the leader's figure (1,350 or more).

Source: Wikipedia

Key Findings

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The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare (60YO) leads in Auction Price (Thousand USD) with 2,700 in 2020.

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2019 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.

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Gap in 2020: The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare (60YO) is 41.5× larger than Bowmore 1957 (54YO).

Most Expensive Bottles of Whisky Sold at Auction (All Time)

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8 categories · 6 years

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Top Value

2,700

The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare (60YO)

Auction Price (Thousand USD) · 2019

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Metrics

Auction Price (Thousand USD)

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Period

2011 – 2020

6 years of data

Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia
Coverage: 8 entities · 2011–2020 (6 years) · 8 observations
Measure: Auction Price (Thousand USD)
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2020.
An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Auction Price (Thousand USD) · ranked by 2020

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#	Category	2011	2012	2017	2018	2019	2020	Change
🥇	The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare (60YO)	—	—	—	—	2,700	—	—
🥈	The Macallan 1926 Valerio Adami (60YO)	—	—	—	1,072	—	—	—
🥉	The Macallan 1926 Peter Blake (60YO)	—	—	—	1,045	—	—	—
4	The Macallan Red Collection (78YO)	—	—	—	—	—	975	—
5	Dalmore 62 Single Highland Malt	215	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve (55YO)	—	94	—	—	—	—	—
7	Springbank 1919 (50YO)	—	—	—	78	—	—	—
8	Bowmore 1957 (54YO)	—	—	65	—	—	—	—