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you are trying to get the press to promote your product, however I
doubt that the reporter would have complained if he sold his for £825!

Incidentally, all prices are plus auctioneer’s commission, which is paid
by the buyer. Even at the over £75 rate of 10%, when you are talking
hundreds or even thousands of dollars the commission makes a big
difference. Note also that the rates are per bottle not over all the bottles
you buy from the auction, so a lot of cheap bottles will be nowhere near
as cheap as you expect.

Glenmorangie Pride is a 10cl sample, distilled in 1981, bottled 2010. This came in a
presentation box with the Spring Water dropper - £825. The Laphroaig is from the 1950’s. It
sold for £800. The Glen Grant 60yo for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is another that came
in a presentation box. It is a 3cl bottle filled by Gordon & MacPhail and sold at auction for
£525. Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost & Rare appears to share the same decanter type
bottle as the Dalmore. The auctioneers say that the Dalmore is 4cl but this one 5cl, it is
unlikely that both are right. Anyway, £460 seems a good price (for the seller).

I thought that we had featured the
1961 Macallan before but I cannot
find it. This one sold for £675.
Macallan 1998 was bottled in 2019
for the 9th Annual Meeting of the
Guangdong Minibottle Club. I have
no idea as to what it cost at the
club meeting but someone at that
meeting doubtless made a good
profit by selling it in the Oct 19
auction for £420

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