Scottish label John Walker & Sons produces a £100,000 whisky to celebrate 60 Years of the Reign of Her Majesty the Queen (1952-2012)
John Walker & Sons this week bottled a limited edition of 60 crystal decanters of ‘Diamond Jubilee Blended Scotch Whisky.’ The company said the whiskies were distilled in 1952 and finished in a marrying cask of English oak from Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham Estate.
Each bottle costs £100,000. The company said it hopes to generate over a million pounds in profit from the rare whisky line. Proceeds are to be donated to Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.
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The whisky promises to be outstanding, but its bottle – a lead crystal decanter adorned with a Britannia silver collar – is no less impressive. Other features include a half-carat diamond set by hand, and an individually numbered silver seal.
As if that weren’t grand enough, these luxuries come with a pair of hand-engraved, lead crystal glasses as well as with a leather bound, personalized, hand-embellished artifact book – all housed in a bespoke cabinet incorporating woods from The Queen's Sandringham and Balmoral estates.