Yamazaki Japanese whisky is once again hitting big numbers at the world’s auction houses, and the figure is even more mind-blowing than you can imagine! This time, the Yamazaki 50-Year-Old 1st Edition 2005 sold for £212,528, in other words roughly $350,000 AUD! Absolutely astonishing. Given that the last one sold for roughly $150,000 AUD, this is an incredible increase of 130% year over year. Forget Real Estate, buy whisky!
Other whiskies that went up for sale included The Macallan Millennium Decanter 50-Year-Old 1949, which sold for $70,000 AUD, and the Karuizawa 50 Year Old 1965, which sold for a little over $60,000 AUD.
Paul Wong, the specialist at Sotheby’s Wine, Asia, said: “We are absolutely thrilled with the new world auction record set by the Yamazaki Aged 50 Years NV, the highest price achieved for any single bottle of Japanese whisky, illustrating a whisky market in full swing.”
Japanese whisky continues to shatter world records at auction. Last April, the world’s largest known collection of Karuizawa set a new world record for the most expensive range of Japanese whisky sold at auction after fetching almost $1 Million AUD.