A rare bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle bourbon sold for well over the expected six-figure auction price.
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The World’s Most Expensive Bourbon Just Sold for $162,500—It’s a Pappy Van Winkle You’ve Never Seen
The auction house predicted lofty sales, but it didn’t expect the collection to go for $2.5 million.
In a recent auction at Sotheby’s, a single-owner stash of whiskey sold for a massive $2.5 million. Every lot sold.
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The most expensive collection of American whiskey broke auction records at $2.5 million
The collection of American whiskey that recently went to auction had something for everyone to marvel at while fetching a ...
How did one bottle of bourbon achieve a 83,000% return on its original MRSP? Exploring decades of market dynamics that led to record-breaking auction sales at Sotheby’s.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There were plenty of notable whiskey auctions throughout 2025, many of them featuring truly rare and highly sought after bottles ...
From the $2.8 million Emerald Isle to record-setting Macallan, Japanese, and American bottles, a look at the whiskies that ...
On January 24, 2026, Sotheby’s, an auction house based in NYC, auctioned a bottle of straight Kentucky bourbon for a total of ...
The entire collection was specially selected by an expert curator. "During his pursuit, the collector met and developed a relationship with U.S. based whisky specialist Jonathan Read who has played an ...
The value of the collection, which is owned by an unnamed individual who clearly knows a thing or two about rare whiskey, is estimated to be worth between $1.17 and $1.68 million. 360 individual ...
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