The last remaining Dalmore 62 has become the most expensive bottle of Scotch whisky ever sold, after a Chinese businessman paid £125,000 to own the item that has been resting behind a glass case at Singapore's Changi airport for six months.

It is one of 12 62s released from the personal collection of master distiller Richard Paterson and breaks the previous record for a bottle of whisky - £120,000 paid for the last Dalmore 64 at Harrods earlier this year.

The rare whisky was given to the airport before being decanted into a crystal bottle featuring a hand-crafted stag's head in platinum.

When it was originally released in 2002, the Dalmore 62 sold for £25,000 at auction, setting the record for the most expensive whisky at the time.

Another bottle of the whisky sold for £32,000 at the Penny Hill Park hotel in Surrey, almost all of which was drunk in one sitting by the purchaser and his friends.

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Dalmore 62 The Worlds Most Expensive Whisky (19/09/11)

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