A rare 54-year-old bottle of Scottish single malt whisky is expected to fetch a whopping £150,000 at an auction.
The bottle of Bowmore 1957, will be the main lot at Bonhams’ Whisky Sale in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
One of the only 12 bottles, the 54-year-old single malt is the oldest the distillery has ever released and the oldest whisky ever to come from the Isle of Islay, the Daily Mail reported.
Auctioneers expect it to sell for between £100,000 and £150,000.
“It is, of course, also the rarest and is expected to become a highly sought after collectors’ item,” a spokesman for Bonhams said.
“The whisky is said to carry flavours of blueberries, cassis, figs, sea salt and eucalyptus followed by dark chocolate and grapefruit leaving the drinker with an aftertaste of bergamot and star anise,” the spokesman said. A second bottle of the Bow-more 1957 will be sold at Bonhams’ whisky auction.
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India’s barfi, french film in oscar longlist
Los Angeles: India’s Barfi, directed by Anurag Basu, is amongst the 71 films named for the 2012 Foreign Language Oscar category, the Academy announced.
The movie, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D’Cruz, was highly appreciated in India and overseas and made a business of 100 crores.
Other foreign-language entries include the French hit The Intouchables, from directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, The Patience Stone from Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi and Austria’s Amour from director Michael Haneke.
Amour had previously won the top prize at May’s Cannes film festival. The film stars Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant as an elderly couple coping with the wife’s worsening health.
Nakache’s The Intouchables starring Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy is the second-highest-grossing film of all time and has earned $355 million internationally. — PTI