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Macallan 1946-1998 - 52 Year Old - Select Reserve


Highest Price: 2022 £17,500.00

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Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 640

Winning Bid
£12,100.00

End Date: 19 Oct 2022
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 592

Winning Bid
£17,500.00

End Date: 07 Jun 2022
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 449

Winning Bid
£13,200.00

End Date: 11 Aug 2021
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 236

Winning Bid
£15,000.00

End Date: 17 Feb 2021
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 311

Winning Bid
£9,000.00

End Date: 05 Feb 2020
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 953

Winning Bid
£12,700.00

End Date: 04 Dec 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 584

Winning Bid
£11,800.00

End Date: 04 Sep 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 838

Winning Bid
£10,100.00

End Date: 03 Jul 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 694

Winning Bid
£12,300.00

End Date: 05 Jun 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 695

Winning Bid
£13,500.00

End Date: 03 Apr 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 379

Winning Bid
£9,200.00

End Date: 23 Jan 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 1188

Winning Bid
£15,100.00

End Date: 23 Jan 2019
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 516

Winning Bid
£11,100.00

End Date: 05 Sep 2018
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 160

Winning Bid
£13,200.00

End Date: 07 Feb 2018
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 332

Winning Bid
£12,100.00

End Date: 04 Oct 2017
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 269

Winning Bid
£8,100.00

End Date: 05 Apr 2017
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 976

Winning Bid
£6,000.00

End Date: 04 May 2016
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 459

Winning Bid
£5,600.00

End Date: 06 Apr 2016
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 547

Winning Bid
£5,900.00

End Date: 06 Apr 2016
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 257

Winning Bid
£5,500.00

End Date: 20 Mar 2016
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 913

Winning Bid
£5,600.00

End Date: 06 Jan 2016
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 249

Winning Bid
£5,600.00

End Date: 19 Jul 2015
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 247

Winning Bid
£5,600.00

End Date: 17 May 2015
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 799

Winning Bid
£4,700.00

End Date: 06 May 2015
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 167

Winning Bid
£5,100.00

End Date: 07 Jan 2015
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 827

Winning Bid
£5,300.00

End Date: 01 Oct 2014
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 295

Winning Bid
£5,900.00

End Date: 06 Aug 2014
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 576

Winning Bid
£7,400.00

End Date: 04 Jun 2014
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 598

Winning Bid
£5,000.00

End Date: 05 Feb 2014
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 539

Winning Bid
£4,700.00

End Date: 13 Nov 2013
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
Macallan 1946 - 52 Year Old
LOT ID: 364

Winning Bid
£4,300.00

End Date: 09 Oct 2013

Macallan 1946-1998 - 52 Year Old - Select Reserve

Macallan 1946 - 1998. 52 Year Old. Select Reserve. Matured in Sherry Casks. 700ml. 750ml. 40%.

A highlight of any auction; the amazing Macallan 1946 52 year old is a whisky of jaw-dropping majesty and complexity with an unusually potent thread of smoky flavour running through it. This was a highpoint in Macallan’s history on release in 1999 and its reputation has only grown in the intervening years. An exquisite dram and increasingly hard to find.

Distillery:  Macallan

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Speyside

Distilled Year: 1946

Bottling Year: 1998

Age: 52

Limited Edition: yes

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 40%

The grandest of Speyside’s blue chip distilleries, Macallan was founded in 1824 and carved a reputation for luxury single malt whisky in the 1980s with string of 18-year-old and 25-year-old sherry-matured vintage single malts distilled in the 1960s and 1970s, building on the renown of earlier highly-regarded licensed bottlings by Gordon & MacPhail and Campbell, Hope and King.

In the early 2000s, as the supply and quality of even the best sherry casks declined dramatically, Macallan introduced their Fine Oak series, an initially controversial range of bottlings that included bourbon-matured spirit in the cask recipe. While the Fine Oak series took some time to find its audience, Macallan’s status as the top Speyside distillery - particularly at auction - was already well-established and today a legion of eager Macallan fans ensure that each new luxury bottling from the distillery sells out immediately on release.

Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.

This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.