World’s most expensive dram: bottle of 1926 Macallan whisky could fetch £1.2m

Only 40 bottles of Adami 1926 were produced – but eventual buyer is unlikely to ever taste it

Ava Gardner, Winston Churchill and Mark Twain all understood the importance of a good bottle of whisky.

But even they might balk at the price of a 97-year-old bottle of Macallan to be sold at Sotheby’s in London, which the auction house is estimating could fetch £1.2m.