When the Gordon & MacPhail Generations 80 year old was auctioned in October 2021, it was arguably a more crowded market. The presentation of both whiskies feature high-end design and craftmanship, but the sculptural elements of The Reach give it greater form as artwork over the Gordon & MacPhail bottling.This sale took place at a time when some whisky auction houses were seeing a significant rise in the number of unsold bottles at their auctions, making the result all the more remarkable.
But why? First, the Macallan is the world's most collectible whisky and the first and only distillery to break a million dollars for a single bottle at auction. The proceeds of both sales raised money for charitable causes.So what difference did a year make? Well, $116,330 apparently the difference in the hammer price between the world's first 80 year old whisky and the world's first 81 year old whisky. Aged one year less than The Reach with only 250 bottles released, its decanter No.1 was auctioned by Sotheby's, Hong Kong on October 7, 2021, achieving a hammer price of HK$1.2 million/$154,158. It was consigned directly from the distillery, with proceeds set to benefit the Macallan Artisan Apprentice Fund.The previous record holder for the oldest whisky sold at auction was the world's first 80 year old whisky, Gordon & MacPhail's Generations 80 year old distilled at Glenlivet. An anonymous UK collector made the winning bid, making this the oldest whisky ever sold at auction. A one-of-one edition of the Macallan The Reach 81 year old, the world's oldest whisky, achieved a hammer price of £240,000/$270,487 at Sotheby's, London in a special single lot auction on October 5 th.
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