A rare bottle of whisky has sold for a record-breaking price of £60,000.
The bottle of Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve was sold at auction in New York for 94,000 US dollars (£59,335).
It is the most expensive bottle ever sold at auction, a spokesman for the Glenfiddich distillery said.
Expensive tipple: A 55-year-old Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Robert whiskey, similar to the latest record-setting bottle, that fetched £60,000 in New York
Well aged: The Janet Sheed malt was produced to honour the oldest living person in Scotland
The 1955 tipple is the third of 11 to be released to the public.
The first sold at Bonhams in Edinburgh in December for a record-breaking £46,850, topping the previous world record of just under £30,000 for a bottle of single malt.
The second was bought by an anonymous bidder at the Honourable Artillery Company in London for £44,000.
The 11 bottles of the whisky are being released to honour Janet Sheed Roberts, the granddaughter of William Grant who founded the Glenfiddich distillery 125 years ago.
Each bottle of the single malt Scotch celebrates a decade of her life.Mrs Roberts, who celebrated her 110th birthday in August, is the oldest living person in Scotland, a spokeswoman for the distillery said.
Proceeds from the sale, which occurred during a charity event on New York’s Liberty Island, benefit the charitable arm of the sustainable development company SHFT.
Bonhams said the Glenfiddich sets a new record for a bottle of single malt sold at auction.
Last year a 64-year-old Macallan malt and Lalique crystal decanter fetched $460,000 (£298,000) at an auction in New York, prompting distillers to say they had smashed the world record for the most expensive whisky ever sold.
Bonhams said they too have broken a world record with their £46,850 auction total, which includes the buyer's premium, explaining that the Glenfiddich sets a new global record for a single malt whisky in a standard bottle.
Bonhams' head of whisky, Martin Green, said: ‘This is the most valuable whisky we have ever auctioned here in Edinburgh and we're thrilled to have helped raise such a significant amount of money for WaterAid.’
He described the whisky as being of the ‘highest standard’ and said it was ‘worth every penny’.
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