Macallan Peter Blake 1926

Following a 60-year maturing period in Sherry casks, only 40 bottles of The Macallan 1926 were released in 1986, each with a £20,000 price tag. Twelve bottles were given to Sir Peter Blake, a British pop artist, to design, while another twelve were put aside for Valerio Adami, with one bottle hand-painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon.

In May 2018, a bottle from the Blake series was purchased for £751,703 (US$970,900) at a Bonhams auction in Hong Kong. When a bottle of Macallan 1926 sold for $1.9 million at Sotheby's in 2019, it became the most expensive whisky ever. Prices for old and unusual bottles have continued to rise since then, with collectors ready to spend increasingly large sums on a small number of labels. Because all 14 bottles are thought to be in private collections, it may be years before another opportunity to purchase one arises.

Price: $1.9 million