A rare bottle of 1955 Glenfiddich single malt whisky has sold at auction for £44,000 – or around £1700 a nip.
The bottle of Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve was sold at auction in London to an anonymous telephone bidder, The Telegraph reported.
It is the second of only 11 bottles to be released to the public.
The first sold at Bonhams in Edinburgh, Scotland in December for a record-breaking £46,850, beating the previous world record of just under £30,000 for a bottle of single malt whisky.
The 11 bottles of the 1955 whisky are being released in honour of Janet Sheed Roberts, the granddaughter of William Grant who founded the Glenfiddich distillery.
Mrs Roberts, who celebrated her 110th birthday in August, is the oldest living person in Scotland, a spokeswoman for the distillery said.
Each bottle celebrates a decade of her life.
Proceeds from the sale of the whisky will go to Walking With The Wounded, a charity dedicated to the retraining and re-education of injured servicemen and women.
The distillery is also supporting a group of injured veterans from the charity who are attempting to conquer Mount Everest.
In 2010, a 64-year-old Macallan malt and Lalique crystal decanter fetched $460,000 at an auction in New York, earning the title of world’s most expensive whisky.
View Comments
Loading ...
