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Sotheby's Nightcap Festival: $625K Ghost Whisky Auction
Inside Sotheby's Nightcap Festival: How a $625,000 Ghost Whisky Shook the Auction World When Sotheby's shuttered the Breuer building's galleries at the close of September 19, the house had more than a successful auction to celebrate. It had announced, in no uncertain financial terms, that the rare w
Macallan 1926 Returns to Auction at Its Own Distillery
One Cask, One Hundred Years: The Macallan 1926 Returns to Its Birthplace for a Historic Auction There are a handful of objects in the world of collecting — a Honus Wagner card, a first-edition Gutenberg Bible, a Patek Philippe reference 1518 — where the conversation stops being purely about price an
Pendleton Whisky Auctions Real 1800s Western Drinking Vessels
Pendleton Whisky's Heritage Collection Puts 1800s Drinking Vessels Up for Auction — and Anyone Can Bid Most whiskey brands, when they want to generate buzz, reach for the obvious lever: release a limited-edition bottle. Pendleton Whisky went an entirely different direction. The brand has unveiled
A €1M Port Ellen 1979 Cask Heads to Auction
A €1-Million Cask of Port Ellen 1979 Is Heading to Auction — and It Might Be the Whisky Opportunity of a Generation There are rare whiskies, and then there is this. On September 14, 2026, Fine Spirits Auction — France's premier online spirits auctioneer — announced that a whole cask of Port Ellen
Sotheby's Stages Biggest Willett Auction in History
The Wax Top Collection: Sotheby's Is Dropping the Biggest Willett Auction in History Sotheby's has a habit of making the bourbon world stop and pay attention. Earlier this year, the auction house shattered records when its Great American Whiskey Collection crossed the $2.5 million mark — and now,
Yamazaki 50-Year-Old Club Natsume Breaks Auction Record
A Million-Dollar Milestone: The Yamazaki 50-Year-Old Club Natsume Shatters the Japanese Whisky Auction Record On the morning of May 30, 2026, inside a sale room in Hong Kong, a single bottle of Japanese whisky crossed a threshold that no bottle from the islands of Japan had ever breached. When the
Three Bottles. A Century of Bourbon History. All for a Good Cause.
When Max Shapira decided to part with three bottles from his personal bourbon collection, he wasn't just selling whiskey. He was putting more than a century of American distilling history on the block — and doing it for charity. Shapira, the executive chairman of Heaven Hill Distillery, has cur
The $4,325 Bottle That Puts Royal Souvenirs to Shame
A Rare Whisky Just Proved That Princess Diana Collectibles Are Still Big Money There is no shortage of Princess Diana collectibles floating around the secondary market, but every now and then something turns up that stops serious collectors in their tracks. A bottle of The Macallan Royal Marriage
The Rarest Bourbon Collection Money Can Buy
Hackstons Acquires One of the Rarest American Whiskey Collections Ever Assembled There are rare whiskies, and then there are unicorns. The kind of bottles that serious collectors spend years chasing, that show up at auction with price tags that make your eyes water, and that most enthusiasts will
Chicago's Bourbon Secret Just Sold for $80,600
Chicago's Van Winkle Legacy Goes Under the Hammer — and the Results Were Staggering There are bourbon auctions, and then there are moments that rewrite what collectors thought they knew about the market. What just went down at Unicorn, the Chicago-based whiskey auction house, was firmly the latter
