The Macallan Estate has unveiled a new contemporary art installation designed to raise global awareness of salmon conservation. Created by renowned American artist, Joseph Rossano, in collaboration with glass artists around the world, Salmon School consists of 300 mirrored glass fish, suspended in the air to replicate the movement of a school of wild salmon and designed to highlight the cultural and ecological importance of this species. The installation is the latest development in The...
A Whisky Auctioneer auction has broken records as a valuable and rare 1926 Macallan sold for $1,072,000 (£825,000), which broke the previous sale record of $912,000 in 2018. The whiskies up for sale, described as the ‘Perfect Collection’ had already sparked global interest before the auction started. This was the first online whisky auction that saw a bottle sell for a million dollars. Bids came in from 56 countries all over the world, with 1,642...
Perth-based Whisky Auctioneer has announced a sale of almost 4,000 bottles of mainly single malt Scotch whiskies, valued at around £8m. The ‘perfect collection’ belonged to late bottling tycoon Richard Gooding, who died in 2014. The collection includes some individual whiskies valued at over £1m, including a bottle of the 1926 Fine and Rare Macallan which sold in October 2019 for £1.5m, making it the world’s most expensive whisky. See also: Limited-edition Macallan Whisky Sells...
