Lalique Decanter Raises $460K for Charity
20012 Fri, 11/19/2010 - 12:30pm
NEW YORKÂ-Lalique decanter filled with The Macallan whiskey was sold at a
Sotheby's auction for $460,000 earlier this week. All of the proceeds were
donated to a charity that provides access to clean, safe drinking water to
people in developing countries.
Laliques one-of-a kind crystal decanter, created using the "cire perdue" or
"lost wax" method, contains the oldest and rarest Macallan ever bottled by
the distillery, a 64-year-old single malt whiskey, according to a Lalique
spokesperson. The whiskey-filled decanter has been on a 12-city world tour
since April and has raised approximately $600,000 for the charitable
organization, which is called charity: water.