Yamakazi Whisky Shatters Expectations at Sotheby's Auction

Sotheby's Hong Kong hosted its first wine auction of 2018 this past weekend, offering bottles from the private collection of a respected aficionado, who remained anonymous, with one fifty year-old bottle of Yamazaki Single Malt Whisky selling for the record-smashing price of $2,337,000 HKD, or $298,879 USD. The whisky smashed its expected sale ceiling of $1,100,000 HKD, more than doubling the estimate and breaking the record for highest-recorded sale price of Japanese whisky. Produced by Suntory...