Bottle of whisky selling for £100,000 at historic West Midlands drinks company

It’s the tipple that is causing more than a ripple – and that’s because the dram has a truly dramatic price tag. 

This incredibly rare Macallan Lalique will set you back £100,000. Mind you, the 55-year-old whisky does come in its own crystal decanter. 

For that price, non collectors would want it to come in its own luxury limo. The single bottle is one of the highest priced whiskies sold by specialists Nickolls and Perks. 

And Tim Robbins, events manager at the Stourbridge drinks company established in 1797, is confident it will be bought. It appears on the market during a time when collecting whisky is growing in popularity. And the spirit certainly appears a sound investment: a similar Macallan sold for just £15,500 nine years ago. 

Tim said: “They don’t often come up. Whisky is becoming incredibly popular, particularly the limited editions and some are high end.” Only 420 of the crystal decanters, containing the whisky, were produced. Most of those have been drunk. 

And even one with a £100,000 price tag may end the same way. Tim said: “If you have the money to be able to buy it, you may want to open it up and enjoy it.” 

You’re hardly likely to pass Macallan Lalique around at a party, however – or drown it in ginger ale. The same goes for the 1964 Bowmore Black 1st edition, also on sale at Nickolls and Perks. Mind you, the £12,000 tag is mere chicken feed when compared with Macallan Lalique. 

And both are snips when judged beside the barrel of Ardberg, based on the Hebridean island of Islay, that recently sold at auction for £16 million. That’s £300 a teaspoon. 

But Tim warned whisky collecting is not a sure-fire “get rich quick” business. He added: “It’s not a bandwagon you jump on and are guaranteed massive returns. Caution has to be shown.”