Tag: whiskey

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Macallan 1926, single malt auctioned for a record £1.5 million

  

  A rare bottle of Scotch whisky has sold for a world record £1.5m at auction in London. The Macallan 1926 60-year-old single malt from cask number 263 had been estimated to sell for between £350,000 and £450,000. Sotheby's, which held the auction, did not release the identity of the buyer.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  US will impose 10% tariffs on Airbus planes and 25% on French wine and Scotch

  

  United States on Wednesday said it would enact 10% tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25% duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskeys and cheese from across the continent as punishment for illegal EU aircraft subsidies.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  A third of vintage Scotch whiskeys are found to be fake

  

  More than a third of vintage Scotch whiskeys tested at a specialist laboratory has been found to be fake, BBC Scotland has learned. Twenty-one out of 55 bottles of rare Scotch were deemed to be outright fakes or whiskeys not distilled in the year declared.