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• Metacask is about to auction the rare whisky cask beginning 12 February, with the 35-year-old cask asking worth debuting at over $3 million.
• The cask is held as The Macallan Distillery in Scotland.
• A digital artwork and NFT can be provided as a part of the sale.

Metacask, a number one market for spirits casks and bottles, is about to auction off a rare 1988 whisky cask from The Macallan Distillery, Scotland.

According to the CasperLabs blockchain powered platform, the sale is for a 35-year previous rare Scotch whisky cask. 

The quantity #4178 cask comes with a 1/1 animated artwork dubbed ‘The Dragon’- a masterpiece by one in every of Italy’s most famed artists Ruben Frosali.

Metacask’s extremely anticipated cask auction

The 35-year-old whisky cask is debuting at over $3 million and its auction follows Metacask’s current success with a 1991 cask sale, which fetched greater than $2.3 million.

“Metacask auctioned a 1991 cask  ‘The Angel’s Share’ in 2021, now just over a year later, we’re back with another much-anticipated auction,” Metacask co-founder and CTO Nim Siriwardana famous in an announcement.

The newest auction is scheduled for between 12 and 19 February 2023 on the Metacask marketplace. Bidding is open to USD whereas settlements can be in both financial institution switch or cryptocurrency. 

As a part of the sale, the customer will get an audio-visual non-fungible token (NFT) of the unique Ruben Frosali artwork, Metacask stated in a press launch. The NFT will function a digital deed,offering for not simply possession and provenance but in addition helpful for worth discovery.

Potential consumers would possibly need to know that the whisky was final regauged at 51.2% alcohol by quantity (ABV), with roughly 495 bottles remaining.