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We do not sell, nor does the Service provide any option to buy, any alcoholic products.Įach and every Member must be of legal drinking age in its country of residence to be allowed to use the Service. bottle facts, market-indices, market values and prices) on (mostly) whisky and allows Members to add information to the platform. Our Service is an online platform which provides Members with information (e.g. These General Terms and Conditions (“Terms”), as well as our Privacy Statement (“ Privacy Statement”), apply to your (“you”, “Member”) use of the Service (which includes visits to the Whiskybase websites).īy using our website(s) and registering for the Service, you expressly confirm acknowledgment and acceptance of the Terms and agree to be bound by them. (“Whiskybase”, “we” or “us”, company details below) offers a whisky enthusiasts online platform that provides its members access to the most comprehensive, transparent and trusted resource of whisky bottles and allows and stimulates its members to contribute information about whisky bottles to the platform (“Service”). It is being sold by whisky broker Mark Littler, who has described it as a “perfect set”.Whiskybase B.V. Since then, experts say Macallan has become collectable and Matthew is hoping to sell his collection for £40,000 ($53,000) and use the money for a house deposit. It was just meant to be a unique present but it was a little bit of luck that we kept it going.” “It wasn’t the only present he got from us. “I thought it would be interesting if I bought one every year and he’d end up with 18 bottles of 18-year-old whisky for his 18th birthday,” he said. His father Pete, who is from Milnathort in Scotland, said the first bottle of 1974 whisky was bought to “wet the baby’s head”.
“But I was under strict instructions, never, never to open them and I tried my hardest and succeeded and they’re all intact.” “I thought it was quite a quirky little present as I was slightly too young to start drinking. “Each year I received it as a birthday present,” Matthew said. The 28-year-old said it “probably wasn’t” the best gift for a young boy but with “strict instructions never to open them” they had become a nest egg. That $6,000 investment in Macallan was just turned into a $53,000 payday for the son who will now purchase his first home.Īccording to the story over on the BBC, this intact collection was described as the ‘perfect set’ and the price of Macallan has spiked in recent years with global interest consistently on the rise: This tradition also started before he was of drinking age which is interesting. He did mention there were other gifts throughout the years, so he wasn’t only getting booze from his dad.
Over the span of 28 years, Matthew Robson’s father spent roughly $6,000 in total on the 28 bottles of 18-year-old Macallan.
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