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Photography by Cordero Studios

Styling by Alicia Buszczak
Special thanks to Gearys of Beverly Hills 

The Last Drop 50-Year-Old “Double Matured” Blended Scotch
This elegant and complex spirit is a compilation of more than 50 Scotch whiskies blended in 1995 as a premium 30-year-old offering for the Asian market. But a precious remnant was saved and transferred into seven Spanish oloroso sherry hogsheads, which were then aged in the Scottish Lowlands for an additional 20 years. Intensely floral, like a garden after the rain, it finishes with a tantalizing whiff of smoke. Only 898 bottles were produced, each handsomely packaged in a leather case alongside a 50 mL “tasting dram” for those who wish to keep the larger wax-dipped bottle intact. ($4,500)

The Macallan “Peerless Spirit” 65-Year-Old Single Malt
Representing one of the oldest Macallan whiskies ever commercially bottled, this is the sixth release of the Macallan in the Lalique Six Pillars series. It is also the concluding chapter in the story of Macallan’s six elements that define the character of their extraordinary single malts. Matured in two American oak sherry casks from a single Jerez cooperage, they were filled at the distillery on November 10, 1950. Sixty-five years later the whisky emerged dark walnut in color, bursting with apricots, marzipan, lemon-soaked bing cherries, and soft smoke. The “Peerless Spirit” decanter was inspired by the pinched techniques used by René Lalique for his perfume bottles. Only 450 decanters exist. ($35,000)