World’s Largest Private Whisky Collection to Go to Auction in 2020
The largest private whisky collection to ever go to auction has been unveiled by online whisky auction specialists, Whisky Auctioneer, who have described it as “The Perfect Collection.”
The collection had been built over two decades by the late Mr. Richard Gooding, an American collector from Colorado who would regularly travel to Scotland in search of bottles at auctions and distilleries. Until recently, the collection had been housed in Mr. Gooding’s “Pub”, a dedicated room located in his Colorado family home that was specially designed to showcase each whisky in the collection.
“The Perfect Collection” by Mr. Richard Gooding consists of over 3,900 bottles, primarily of single malt Scotch whisky, but also American whiskey and bourbon, Irish whiskey, and Japanese whisky. The collection includes rare and valuable bottles from distilleries such as The Macallan, Bowmore, and Springbank, some individually valued at over £1,000,000, as well as never before seen bottlings from some of Scotland’s lost distilleries.
Each bottle in “The Perfect Collection” by Mr. Richard Gooding will go live on Whisky Auctioneer over two separate auctions from February 7-17 and April 10-20, 2020. To learn more about the collection and sign-up for the auction, visit whiskyauctioneer.com.
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