A whisky buff who travelled the world in pursuit of bottles has made history after selling his personal collection – the largest in the world to come to auction.
Working with Perth-based Whisky Auctioneer, the collector known only as “Pat” sold his collection of 9070 bottles for a total of £3,360,000.
Pat’s Whisk(e)y Collection took over 12 months to auction off across a series of specially curated monthly spotlight auctions and dedicated sales.
Dubbed the most complete picture of whisky brought to market, it featured in excess of 5000 Scotch single malts, 1000 blended whiskies, 600 American whiskeys and hundreds of often overlooked grain whiskies and independent bottlings.
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