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mACALLAN FINE&RARE

sINgLE mALT 30 YEARs

DIsTILLED 1973,

BOTTLED 2003, OB

1 BT
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€ 8.750

there is perhaps

Launched in 2002 with twenty or so no other whisky distillery

bottles, the Fine & Rare collection starts in the world with a historic
with a 1926 vintage, a bottle containing

whisky that has been maturing for over memory like Macallan
sixty years. To set the scene, when this

whisky was poured from the still, we

would have been in the peak of Prohibition in America; we might

have seen the first automatic traffic lights installed in London

or even the first televised images shown in public by scotsman

John Logie Baird; we might have heard about the Nobel prize for Fine & Rare collection, dating from 1937 to 1990, sold along with

literature being awarded to grazia Deledda on the radio or read the macallan golden Age of Travel and macallan select Reser-

about the death of Rodolph Valentino. This long aging period ve 1946 to an Asian collector for 500,000 dollars. In 2014, the

and time have only saved forty bottles from 1926. In 2007, this largest collection of macallan Fine & Rare, composed of forty

bottling began to set records and was sold by Christie’s in New bottles with vintages from 1937 to 1972, sold for 430,000 dollars

York for 54,000 dollars. in New York. Last November, three bottles from a passionate

collector in Liguria, vintages 1951, 1961 and 1973 with 51, 40 and 30

The collection is added to each year and currently includes over years of maturing respectively, sold for a total of 30,000 euros.

fifty references from the 1920s to the 1990s. Each bottle, which

clearly displays the year of distillation, is logged and traced from The Fine & Rare collection is just one example of why macallan

the distillery. In January 2016, 19 bottles from between 1938 and is the collector’s whisky par excellence and of how the distillery

1974 were sold at the International Airport of Dubai for over wants to keep a strong focus on the brand despite it moving into

360,000 dollars. In December 2016, a vintage series from the large-scale production from a purely commercial perspective.

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