{"id":144,"date":"2023-09-11T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskymates.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","slug":"macallan-reach-81-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/11\/macallan-reach-81-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Macallan Reach 81 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have a spare $150-260k lying around, this might interest you. Although, I certainly don&#8217;t, and it still intrigued the hell out of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A one-of-a-kind special edition of The Macallan The Reach 81 Years Old, the oldest whisky in the world (i.e. the longest aged in the barrel; there are other older potable whiskies out there). Distilled in 1940 and crafted from a single, sherry seasoned oak cask, this exclusive bottle of The Macallan The Reach is encased in a display <a><\/a>cabinet lined in red leather, rather than the traditional cream leather which features on the original whisky release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bottle number 3\/288 of The Macallan The Reach is encased in a mouth-blown decanter and cradled on a bronze sculpture of three hands. The cabinet is crafted using wood from a fallen elm tree which is thought to have been on The Macallan Estate in 1940, the year the spirit was distilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside the bottle, the winning bidder (it&#8217;s up for auction at Sotheby&#8217;s) will also have a bespoke small bronze sculpture created for them, and enjoy an exceptional distillery experience at The Macallan Estate, including a tasting of this extraordinarily rare 81 year old whisky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/352899896_23855943942270236_8688997069785975078_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\" style=\"width:651px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/352899896_23855943942270236_8688997069785975078_n.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/352899896_23855943942270236_8688997069785975078_n-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/352899896_23855943942270236_8688997069785975078_n-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a spare $150-260k lying around, this might interest you. Although, I certainly don&#8217;t, and it still intrigued the hell out of me. A one-of-a-kind special edition of The Macallan The Reach 81 Years Old, the oldest whisky in the world (i.e. the longest aged in the barrel; there are other older potable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}