The whiskey bottle that is believed to have been distilled 250 years ago was sold at six times the original price, fetching USD 137,000 (Rs 1,02,63,019).
The world’s oldest whiskey bottle has just been sold at an auction for a whopping amount of more than one crore rupees. The whiskey bottle that is believed to have been distilled 250 years ago was sold at six times the original price, fetching USD 137,000 (Rs 1,02,63,019).
According to a report in Daily Mail, the Old Ingledew Whiskey was bottled in 1860, but the liquid inside it is believed to be at least a century older than that.
Auction house Skinner Inc. estimated the bottle would fetch between $20,000 and $40,000. However, the bottle was sold to The Morgan Library, a museum and research institution in midtown Manhattan, for $137,500, in an auction that ended on June 30.
The whiskey once belonged to the famous financier of the era, John Pierpoint Morgan.
A label on the back of the bottle reads: ‘This Bourbon was probably made prior to 1865 and was in the cellars of Mr. John Pierpoint Morgan from whose estate it was acquired upon his death.’
