Lots of sumptuous spirits will be on the block at Christie's in what's being billed as the first legal auction of hard liquor and distilled spirits in New York since Prohibition.

This to be sure is not your run of the mill hooch:

* A 1926 Macallan single malt -- aged 60 years in cherry wood before being bottled -- is expected to fetch $30,000.

* A cognac from the year 1811, named after Napoleon may go for around $6,000.

* A bottle of rye made from George Washington's original recipe could command $20,000.

"Only 24 bottles made," Brierley said of the rye. "They re-created the still. They re-created the recipe. Got the best distiller in the world to make it."

Those thirsting for the real thing will get their chance Saturday at Christie's, appropriately that's the day after the anniversary of the 1933 repeal act which ended Prohibition.
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Mmmmm..... alcamahol..... *goes to search cabinets for liquor*......

60 year old Macallan !!!! I can't begin to imagine how smooth that would be

Some people go to Walmart .

haha they don't sell scotch at walmart (I wish they did)

hmm.. * wish we had some of that here "

They do in some states where it's legal to do so, it's just not legal in all places.

Whaaaat? well I'm thinking a month long ROAD TRIP is in order!!!

LOL!

NEW YORK - A bottle of 81-year-old scotch has sold for 54-thousand-dollars in New York state's first liquor auction since Prohibition.
An anonymous collector bought the pricey potable on the weekend at a Christie's sale of wines and spirits.

The 100-lot auction sold a total of 304-thousand, 800-dollars worth of rare wine and liquor.

The top lot was a collection of 729 bottles of whiskey, which went for $102,000.

The 54-thousand-dollar bottle was distilled at Macallan in Scotland in 1926, bottled in 1986 and rebottled in 2002.
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Some people like their alcohol way too much! LOL.

I'm thinking /any/ Scotch sold at any Wal-Mart would have only a passing resemblance to the 1926 Macallan single malt.

--Jaylemurph