Last September, Henry Jeffreys wrote in these very pages about the trend for rare whiskies and how – if you’re thinking about investing in alcohol – they might be a better bet than first-growth clarets. He told us of how whisky writer Ian Buxton ‘told me about visiting the Bowmore distillery on Islay in the 1990s and seeing bottles of Black Bowmore 30-year-old whisky gathering dust and priced at around £100 a bottle. One sold this year at auction for £11,450.’
‘The world’, wrote Jeffreys, ‘has gone whisky mad’. So, bearing that in mind, it will come as little surprise to regular Spectator Money readers that a bottle of very similar second-edition Black Bowmore single malt whisky made a record-breaking £11,900 at auction. Given that the single malt was originally retailed at £80 when it was released in 1993, that’s certainly some profit.
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