In September 2011, a bottle of The Dalmore 62 year-Old was sold to an anonymous Chinese businessman for the staggering price of $320,000, making it the most expensive bottle of Scotch (or anything else) ever sold. The bottle had been sitting in a glass case in a shop at Singapore’s Changi Airport. Only 12 bottles of the 62 year-Old were ever produced, blended from casks of whisky made in 1868, 1878, 1922, 1926 and 1939.
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