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The World’s Most Expensive Whiskey Bottles Ever Sold
ByBrad Japhe,
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From the $2.8 million Emerald Isle to record-setting Macallan, Japanese, and American bottles, a look at the whiskies that have fetched the highest prices ever at auction
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The Macallan 1926 Turns 100: How One Forgotten Cask Became The World’s Most Expensive Whisky
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