The public sale home will start taking bids on The Legacy Assortment, a 142-bottle lot of a few of the rarest whisky on earth, on Might 1. The gathering is estimated to deliver bids of as much as $1.9 million as soon as the public sale begins.

The bottles, which characteristic vintages relationship way back to 1937, will probably be offered individually—and there are some seldom seen ones which are hitting the block. As an example, one in all solely two bottles of The Macallan Positive & Uncommon 1957 that had been bottled within the 750ml format for the U.S. market will probably be obtainable (estimated worth vary: $120,000-$200,000). A bottle of The Balvenie 50 Yr Outdated Batch No.1 is predicted to go for $14,000 or extra. And a 2014 Pappy Van Winkle 23 Yr Outdated Household Reserve will seemingly promote for between $3,000 and $4,000.

The spotlight of the public sale is the 59 bottles from The Macallan Positive and Uncommon assortment, a collection the model launched in 2002. On this explicit assortment, the oldest whiskey is from 1937. Nonetheless, collectors haven’t seen this most of the Positive and Uncommon bottles in a single place for a protracted, very long time.

“The Legacy Assortment showcases what’s undoubtedly one of the full Macallan Positive & Uncommon collections ever to return to public sale as a part of one of the important single proprietor gross sales supplied on U.S. soil,” stated Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s Head of Whisky & Spirits in a video discussing the public sale.

The 1957 is the spotlight, although, since that was the classic that was one of many rarest of the collection. Solely 15 bottles had been stuffed, making it a unicorn for whisky collectors.