There are around 10-20 bottles of these ‘second tier’ (giggles) Macallan fine whiskies available, including some interesting sets released as part of the Macallan Distillery Golden Age of Travel. The pictured bottle is The Macallan 52 Year Old (2018 Release), one of only 250 bottles made.

6. Dalmore – Candela 50 Year Old

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PRICE: $110,000 – $120,000 USD

“Candela is the international unit for the measurement of the intensity of light. It defines brilliance,” say Dalmore’s official notes about this brilliant special bottle of single malt whisky.

The tasting notes from Master Blender Richard Paterson gush about this rare whisky from the Highlands, with a mixture of citrus fruits and sweeter dried fruit offerings mingling together for an incomparably sublime dram. Dalmore has a slightly cheaper 50 year old offering (just$102,124.18) that comes in a bit lighter on the wallet…

7. Balvenie 56 Year Old 1962 (cask 5575) – The Balvenie DCS Compendium Chapter Five (70cl, 42.1%)

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PRICE: $40,000 – $45,000 USD

This Balvenie, another popular Speyside single malt, was released in tribute to the company’s Malt Master, David C. Stewart, and was distilled in the same year Stewart started working for Balvenie. It was casked in a Spanish oak Oloroso sherry hogshead which was filled on June 29th, 1962.

When the DCS Compendium Chapter 5 was released, Stewart told Elite Traveler: “I’ve been lucky enough to have been given the freedom to make stock decisions based on my preference and vision, with the free rein to pick casks and hold on to whisky, not always knowing what I’m going to do with it, for no other reason than thinking one day it will be extraordinary. For me, this is indulgence in its truest form.”