{"id":1457346,"date":"2022-04-28T18:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457346"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:59:39","slug":"cheers-long-forgotten-cask-of-rare-scotch-sells-for-mind-boggling-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheers-long-forgotten-cask-of-rare-scotch-sells-for-mind-boggling-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheers! Long-Forgotten Cask of Rare Scotch Sells For Mind-Boggling Sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcheers-long-forgotten-cask-of-rare-scotch-sells-for-mind-boggling-sum%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1358320148.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Forget about real estate or tech stocks: The best investment is in Scotch.<\/p>\n<p>A forgotten cask of The Macallan from 1988 just sold at auction for a record-breaking sum of nearly $1.3 million. The cask was purchased some 34 years ago by an absent-minded drinker who paid $6,275 for it, yet never turned up to collect it. The distiller sold it Sunday to an unidentified American buyer through the online auction site Whisky Hammer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this cask was listed in our auction, we knew it had the potential to make history,\u201d said Daniel Milne, Whisky Hammer\u2019s founder. \u201cTo come across a cask of this age, quality and size is extraordinary in itself, enhanced by the fact the liquid was distilled at The Macallan which is reflected in the global attention the cask has attracted.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A forgotten cask of whisky sold at auction for C$1.48 million, distilled in 1988 at The Macallan distillery, one of Scotland&#8217;s oldest distilleries. The 374-litre cask contains enough scotch to fill 534 bottles of Old Macallan Whisky, it sold to a private individual in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pkEwRO00yI\">pic.twitter.com\/pkEwRO00yI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Freddie Saxon (@WordsmithSaxon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WordsmithSaxon\/status\/1519658025518342151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The cask holds about 534 bottles\u2019 worth of whiskey, which works out to $2,426 apiece. That breaks the per-bottle record for a cask, topping a smaller Macallan barrel auctioned in 2021 for $572,000, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/forgotten-macallan-whisky-cask-auction-record\">Food &#038; Wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-native\" class=\"tablet-ad desktop-ad ads-in-content\" data-tier=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"COycod3kt_cCFSKGgwgdI_8DgA\">\n<p>Last October, a cask of Macallan 1991 sold at auction for $2.33 million, but the sale included a commissioned NFT\u00a0from artist Trevor Jones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about real estate or tech stocks: The best investment is in Scotch.A forgotten cask of The Macallan from 1988 just sold at auction for a record-breaking sum of nearly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1480907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}