A rare bottle of whisky worth more than £700,000 is to go on sale in Edinburgh next week.
The 60-year-old Macallan 1926 – one of only 12 bottles in existence – will go under the hammer in Bonhams Whisky sale.
The whisky lay at the distillery for more than six decades in a cask brought from Spain, before it was bottled in 1986.
Its label was designed by acclaimed British pop artist Sir Peter Blake, best known for co-creating the iconic cover for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Bonhams whisky specialist Martin Green said: "It is dark honey-gold in colour, and is almost inconceivably smooth with a luscious hint of dry-sweetness in the malt."
It is estimated to be worth between £500,000 and £700,000, having been kept by a UK collector who acquired the bottle on its release in 1986.
One of the bottles sold in May 2018 at Bonhams in Hong Kong for £751,703.
At the time, this set a world record for a bottle of whisky at auction and is still the highest price paid for a Macallan 60-year-old 1926 from the Blake series.
The Bonhams Whisky sale takes place on Wednesday, March 6 starting at 11am.
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