Vietnamese buys the biggest bottle of whisky for £1.1m, world record
Vietnamese man Viet Nguyen Dinh Tuan purchased a 311-litre bottle of 32-year-old Macallan single malt whisky for £1.1m at an auction.
The earlier anonymous buyer of the world’s giant bottle of whisky, 5ft 11in is taller than the average man, has been proclaimed a Vietnamese businessman with a spirits collection worth around £150m.
Viet Nguyen Dinh Tuan purchased the 311-litre bottle filled with 32-year-old Macallan single malt for £1.1m at auction in Edinburgh the prior year.
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Viet added the bottle of whisky, called the Intrepid, to his array in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday with a certificate from Guinness World Records showing it as the world’s most enormous. The last purchase price was nearly £92 a dram (25ml).
A longtime collector of rare spirits, Viet owns many of the world’s rarest and oldest cognac and whisky bottles.
He said: “I’ve spent my spare time collecting these bottles for decades. The history and traditions of whisky-making give each one its rarity, and that’s the value I see in each bottle. I was enticed to acquire the Intrepid for three main reasons: it’s the world’s biggest bottle, it contains Macallan, and I was inspired by the record-breaking achievements of the 11 explorers depicted on the bottle’s label.”
Source – TG
