By Valery Lopez • Jun 28th, 2010 • Category: News & Noteworthy
Celebrating 150 years of beauty, creativity and quality, Macallan is honoring renowned glassmaker and jewelry designer René Lalique by bottling and auctioning off a unique 64-year-old single malt whisky in a specially made decanter.
The one-of-a-kind decanter made by Lalique, features the ‘lost wax’ procedure, which has not been used for at least 80 years. The contents of the decanter also represent the oldest Macallan whisky to ever be released by the distillery in over 186 years. The spirit features tastes of blood oranges, rosin, treacle and walnuts, cocoa chocolate, and peat smoke–a balance and depth of aromas which are often sought but rarely achieved.
The decanter is currently on a world tour where samples of the 64-year-old Macallan whisky are being auctioned in each city, along with two exquisite Lalique crystal pieces. The world tour will come to an end when the final full auction takes place at Sotheby’s in New York on November 15th, 2010.
The price is yet to be determined, but it is expected to surpass the price of the second oldest Macallan–60 years–sold to a Korean buyer in 2005 for $75,000. All proceeds will benefit “Water,” the charity that has funded 2,300 fresh water projects and brought potable water to millions of people in developing nations.
http://www.themacallan.com
~Affluent Page
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