Glenfiddich whisky makes $20,000
Published April 6th, 2006
A US businessman who has never visited Scotland has splashed out $20,000 for a rare bottle of whisky.
Dan Weiss, 44, from New Jersey, was the highest bidder at an auction during Tartan Week to raise money for the City Harvest food charity in New York.
He paid £11,422 for the Glenfiddich, which was casked in 1937, the coronation year of George VI.
Mr Weiss said it would have to be a “heck of a special occasion” before his purchase was opened and drunk.
The bidding at the Scotland Village in Grand Central Station began at $5,000 and rose in $1,000 steps before Mr Weiss, a computer software director, entered the fray at $19,000 and put forward his $20,000 offer.
He explained later that he and a friend began collecting Glenfiddich and Glenlivet whisky after the latter was served at the wedding of Princes Charles and Diana in 1981.
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