A bottle of whisky on display in Prahran sells for $150,000
People came from across Melbourne to see this $150,000 bottle of whisky in Prahran. Now the store is set to sell its next big-ticket item — a $288,000 bottle of cognac more than 160 years old.
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Travelling from across Melbourne to Prahran just to see a bottle might have some people scratching their heads.
But for Daniel Delaney it is something he has become used to — especially when that bottle has recently sold for $150,000.
The Macallan 72 Years Old in Lalique was on show at Dan Murphy’s Prahran Cellar for about six weeks and proved an attraction in its own right, with people stopping by to get photos of it.
Mr Delaney, the spirits manager at the Chapel St store, said it was not unusual to stock “a reasonable collection of super premium products”.
“But to have something of that calibre, with that name and price value is obviously quite significant,” he said.
“It certainly has some wow factor, if nothing more than the price tag alone.”
The whisky — the only bottle available in Australia and one of only 600 ever made — proved popular, with more than 50 people registering interest before a whisky enthusiast bought it in a ballot.
It was the most expensive single bottle of spirits ever sold in the liquor retailer’s history.
The cellar prides itself on having items that aren’t available elsewhere, including a 75-year-old Gordon & Macphail Mortlach single malt valued at $60,000, some champagnes valued more than $20,000 and a complete set of Penfolds Grange.
A new big-ticket item will also be up for grabs from next week — an 1858 Cognac Croizet, Cuvee Leonie priced at $288,000, and which set the record for most expensive cognac ever sold in 2011.
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“I don’t believe this particular bottle will be available anywhere else in Australia,” Mr Delaney said.
The product will only actually be delivered to its owner when it is sold, but a dummy bottle will be on display at 273 Chapel St, Prahran.