The World?s Oldest Bourbon Sold for US$137,000
The Old Ingledew Whiskey once belonged to Wall Street Financier J.P Morgan.
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Credit: Skinner Auctioneers
The world?s oldest bourbon whiskey has been auctioned for US$137,000. Skinner Auctioneers who oversaw the bidding process said the bottle, better known as the Old Ingledew Whiskey, was most likely bottled between 1763-1803 after undergoing a Carbon-14 dating test.
?We took a sample and tested by Carbon-14 dating, and determined that with an 81.1% probability that the Bourbon was produced between 1763-1803, which places it in the historical context of The Revolutionary War and the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s,? says Joseph Hyman, a fine spirits specialist at Skinner. ?The whiskey was not bottled at a distillery destroyed in the war, it is actually bottled by a general store, which is the same way the Scottish whisky Johnnie Walker started.?
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Beyond the dating information provided by modern science, the bottle itself was labelled and on it stated that the bourbon was ?probably made prior to 1865?. Also included in the short excerpt is the ownership. Interestingly, the bottle belonged to John Pierpont Morgan ? or known widely as J.P Morgan, the Wall Street financier.
Credit: Skinner Auctioneers
Besides the famed banker, the ex-owners of the bottle include James Byrnes, the previous ...
The post The World?s Oldest Bourbon Sold for US$137,000 appeared first on LUXUO.
Credit: Skinner Auctioneers
The world?s oldest bourbon whiskey has been auctioned for US$137,000. Skinner Auctioneers who oversaw the bidding process said the bottle, better known as the Old Ingledew Whiskey, was most likely bottled between 1763-1803 after undergoing a Carbon-14 dating test.
?We took a sample and tested by Carbon-14 dating, and determined that with an 81.1% probability that the Bourbon was produced between 1763-1803, which places it in the historical context of The Revolutionary War and the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s,? says Joseph Hyman, a fine spirits specialist at Skinner. ?The whiskey was not bottled at a distillery destroyed in the war, it is actually bottled by a general store, which is the same way the Scottish whisky Johnnie Walker started.?
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Beyond the dating information provided by modern science, the bottle itself was labelled and on it stated that the bourbon was ?probably made prior to 1865?. Also included in the short excerpt is the ownership. Interestingly, the bottle belonged to John Pierpont Morgan ? or known widely as J.P Morgan, the Wall Street financier.
Credit: Skinner Auctioneers
Besides the famed banker, the ex-owners of the bottle include James Byrnes, the previous ...
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