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If last night’s sale proved anything it is that, for the right bottles, Macallan is still the unassailable king at auction.

One of the continuing trends in last night’s auction was the new trading levels of older, high-end Macallans.

Our first auction of 2017 was another sale with a 100% sale rate and a string of impressive results. The top lot was a full case of 12 Macallan Private Eyes. With a hammer price of £21,000 that makes the price of each bottle around the top end of the current market value. It is often a subject of some debate as to whether – on the very rare occasions when they turn up – a full case sells better as a single lot or as separate lots. Judging by this result the seller saved themselves a small bundle of lotting...

The Macallan 1946 editions both returned healthy and consistent results while the Black Bowmore 1st edition was up against recent results for this bottling. Even with a slightly lower fill level this bottle can still command a hammer price of £5500 – another signifier of just how highly regarded this great whisky actually is.

Our latest auction featured some particularly impressive prices for old and rare bottlings showing the increasing demand for these kinds of bottles. One of the most striking was the Brora 1972 22 year old Rare Malts, a bottling which seems to be setting a new record event time it comes to auction. It finished up at a whopping £4400, that’s way over and above its previous best of £3200 in our auction last year.