When it comes to picking winners and losers, hindsight is a marvellous thing.
If someone had handed me $100,000 to invest a decade ago I might have looked to the sharemarket for a healthy rate of return, or perhaps property; but what I should have been looking at was whiskey – and specifically single malt.
Whisky has always been big business, but the emergence of single malts as a premium category in the 1970s really offered the launchpad to send prices into orbit. Whereas malts had traditionally been mostly used in blended Scotch, they were suddenly widely available in all their individual glories.
Suddenly you had a wide range of whiskies hitting the market, each one subtly different to the next, and each one with an elevated price tag that consumers didn't really blink at. It was only a matter of time before small amounts of very old spirit were released into the market and these weren't long about attracting high prices.
As producers saw bottles sell for jaw-dropping prices, more of them released super-old, hyper-rare whiskies and no one caught the wave quite so thoroughly as Macallan, the great Speyside distillery. As well as releasing ultra rare whiskies, Macallan started issuing them in collectible formats as well, none more successful – or more expensive – than the Lalique bottlings.
Even given a small correction in the vertiginously rising average price rates that the recent turbulence has triggered, the returns on collectible malts remain very impressive indeed. Almost as impressive as the domination by Macallan of our list of the world's most expensive widely available single malts. Let's take a look at them.
The Most Expensive Single Malts on Wine-Searcher:| Whisky Name | Ave Price | |
|---|---|---|
| The Macallan Lalique 55 Year Old | $163,494 | |
| The Macallan Lalique IV 60 Year Old | $135,644 | |
| The Macallan Lalique 62 Year Old | $132,242 | |
| The Macallan Lalique 72 Year Old | $117,052 | |
| The Macallan 50 Year Old | $104,826 | |
| The Macallan 52 Year Old | $101,927 | |
| The Macallan Lalique VI 65 Year Old | $91,108 | |
| Bowmore Black The Last Cask 50 Year Old | $80,440 | |
| The Balvenie 50 Year Old | $41,215 | |
| The Macallan Fine & Rare | $39,172 |
Macallan's dominance is almost comical. With the exception of the Bowmore and Balvenie, the entirety of the list emerges from Easter Elchies estate on the outskirts of Craigellachie. That level of saturation is matched only by the Buffalo Trace distillery on our Bourbon lists.
The prices are bordering on the insane. However, they are – and I know this is hard to believe – actually down a little this year; the average price of the top-ranked bottling peaked in March 2019 at more than $225,000. That it has lost almost $62,000 is sobering – well, for anyone who bought it in March last year, at least – but some perspective is required; five years ago, the average price stood at $42,600, so it still represents almost fourfold return.
Similarly, the second-placed bottling on this list was available for an average price of $38,024 five years ago, and it is currently showing a 356 percent return. This difficult past year alone has witnessed a $16,000 increase in its average price. Even the "lowest" bottling on the list, the Fine & Rare, has doubled in average price over the past five years, soaring from $19,220 to a shade less than $40,000.
Now, has anyone got $100,000 they can lend me? I've got to go shopping for some Macallan.
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