A private collection of scotch whisky is expected to bring in up to 71 million dollars at the auctions next year. Whiskysamlingen, which includes the 3900 bottles of rare whisky, is the largest that has ever been sold at an auction. It was Colorado businessman Richard Gooding, who purchased many bottles through two decades. Gooding died in 2014 but flew frequently to Scotland and visited the auction houses and distilleries in order to get hold of the world’s rarest single malts.
the Auction house Whisky Auctioneer in Perth will sell the bottles individually at the two on-line auctions next year. The collection includes among other things the world’s most expensive whisky, a ‘Fine and Rare Macallan’ from 1926. This is expected only to bring about 10.7 million dollars. A 1919 Springbank from the collection is valued at around 1.8 million crowns and a 1937 Glenfiddich is expected to bring in 533.000 euros.
In the collection are bottles from some of Scotland’s closed distilleries including Old Orkney from Stromness Distillery and the Dallas Dhu.
Gooding kept the many bottles in his private pub in his home in the UNITED states. He was the owner of The Pepsi Cola Bottling Company from 1979 to 1988, when he sold it to parent company PepsiCo.
