An extremely rare bottle of whisky was sold for a new world record at auction in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The 60-year-old Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 was sold at Bonhams for a total 848,750 (about $1.09 million, 947,000 euros) beating a previous bottle from the same cask that was sold in Hong Kong in May for 814,081. Richard Harvey, a drinks expert at Bonhams, told AFP: "The buyer is from the Far East where there has been an enormous interest in whisky.

"Whisky bars are opening up in the Far East everywhere, so there is a huge interest," he said. In general, about "a third to 40 percent of our sales go out to buyers in the Far East," he said. Bonhams now holds the record for the three most valuable bottles of whisky ever sold at auction. Martin Green, a Bonhams whisky specialist in Edinburgh, said: "It is a great honour to have established a new world record, and particularly exciting to have done so here in Scotland, the home of whisky."