News: Irish whiskey becomes most expensive ever sold [The Drinks Business]
“A bottle of The Emerald Isle whiskey from The Craft Irish Whiskey Co has sold for $2.8m (£2.2m), making a claim to be the most expensive single malt ever sold.
The triple-distilled whiskey sold to American collector Mike Daley surpassed the $2.7m (£2.1m) last November for a bottle of The Macallan 1926.
Daley claimed following the purchase that “Irish is the future of whiskey” and he was “excited to be part of it, as a collector, but most importantly as a drinker”. It comes as some data suggests that super premium within the Irish whiskey category has increased substantially in value across the past 20 years.”