Wines made from Chenin blanc grapes - Page 5

The auction featured more than 1,000 lots made up exclusively of Scotch whisky. The company gave a combined estimate in the region of $1.5m in the build-up to the event, so it exceeded expectations by more than 66%. The top three lots went to The Macallan, whose enduring popularity shows no signs of waning any time soon. The most expensive lot was The Macallan Millennium Decanter 50 Year Old from 1949, which sold for $40,000. A case of six bottles of Macallan 30 Year Old in their original wooden ...

Livio Mazzarello, 62, was found guilty of money laundering and evading excise duty and VAT on an ‘industrial scale’ in July 2017. He had been selling cases of wine under the counter for cash at The Italian Wine Company in Neasden, northwest London. This fraud allowed the company to dodge VAT and duty on millions of bottles of wine, which were sold wholesale to UK retailers. The total loss to HMRC, the UK’s tax authority, reached £46,579,257.32 between June 2008 and March 2013, according to court ...

The Sotheby’s New York sale of Bourbon and Rye Whiskey, held at the weekend, combined two significant collections of American whiskey, with almost 100% of lots sold and 75% of them selling for above their pre-sale high estimates. The top spot for the most expensive lot in the auction went to a bottle of LeNell’s Red Hook Rye 24 Year Old Barrell #4, which sold for $43,750, double its pre-sale high estimate and making it the joint most valuable bottle of rye whiskey ever sold at auction. The sum w ...