World’s Oldest Bottle Of Whiskey Sells For $137K After Proving To Be Much Older
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A bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey, believed to be the world’s oldest, has sold for a staggering US$137,000 at an auction by Skinner Auctioneers.
According to Robb Report, the final sale price exceeded the auction estimate of US$20,000 to US$40,000 by nearly US$100,000.
The whiskey was thought to date back to the 1850, but a recent laboratory test by the University of Georgia and University of Glasgow has revealed it to be much older.
A sample of whiskey was taken from the bottle and carbon tested, with the results suggesting a 81.1% chance that the whiskey was bottled somewhere between 1763 and 1803, making it the oldest bottle in the world.
This specific bottle of Old Ingledew had also once belonged to Wall Street mogul John Pierpoint Morgan, who would go on to found JPMorgan Chase & Co.
As per Barron’s, he had acquired the bottle on a trip to Georgia. Subsequently, Morgan’s son gifted the bottle of US Supreme Court justice James Byrnes in the 1940s.
Although this is the oldest bottle of whiskey known to date, it isn’t the most expensive. Robb Report notes that the world’s most expensive whiskey – a bottle of Macallan Fine and Rare 60-Year-Old 1926 – sold for US$1.9 million in 2019.
Take a look at the world’s oldest known bottle of whiskey below.
[via Robb Report, cover image via Skinner Inc]
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