We’ve covered plenty of rare whiskey auctions before from big names like Sotheby’s , Bonhams , and Christie’s. But a relative newcomer to the auction world, Unicorn, has had some impressive American whiskey lots for sale as well in recent years, and the latest includes some rare Buffalo Trace Distillery brands worth checking out. Scotch whiskey brands and distilleries like the Macallan get all the glory when it comes to the auction world, as evidenced by last year’s bottle of the Macallan 1926 60-year-old single malt that sold for a record-breaking $2.
7 million. But the American whiskey world has its fair share of highly coveted unicorns, particularly when it comes to one name: Buffalo Trace . This Kentucky distillery is the home of brands like Pappy Van Winkle (made there in partnership with the Van Winkle family), W.
L. Weller, E.H.
Taylor, and the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection . Recently, Unicorn actually set a couple of records for American whiskey sales, which are impressive even if they don’t come close to the scale of that bottle of Macallan. In May, a bottle of Very Very Old Fitzgerald 18 Year “Blackhawk” 121 proof bourbon sold for over 100 grand, and then that record was beaten a few weeks later by the sale of a six-liter bottle of Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned Copper 1982 bourbon for nearly $123,000.
There’s no way to tell if anything available for auction now will reach those lofty heights, but the lineup is one that whiskey collectors should keep a.