The World’s Most Expensive Whiskeys

To catch these white whales, you're going to need to drop some serious dough.

More so than any other spirit, whiskey inspires the type of cultish reverence that sends price tags soaring. That brown-spirit fever is especially evident with legendary brands like Pappy Van Winkle, whose 23-year-old Family Reserve has long been a white whale for obsessive collectors. Groups like The Bourbon Mafia and Bourbon Exchange, which track black-market sales and fluctuating prices like traders at the NYSE, have only added fuel to the fire.

A free market, as we know, can be volatile. While some Irish whiskey and bourbon can cost a small fortune, it’s the peaty taste of Scotch that inspires the craziest splurges. A special bottling of Macallan sold at a Hong Kong auction earlier this year for $628,000, shattering the world record for most expensive bottle ever.

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