Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Single malt scotch record

Single malt scotch record [PHOTO\VIDEO] sale in Hong Kong, A rare bottle containing Macallan Whiskey, recently sold at auction for a record price of $628,205. Auction House Sotheby's in Hong Kong was charged with overseeing the sale and had only expected to bring somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000 to $516,000 for the six-liter bottle.

More than 1 billion bottles of whiskey left Scottish shores for overseas markets last year -- an amount equivalent to about 90 percent of total Scotch sales -- says the Scotch Whisky Association.

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