By Rachel Trent, Apr. 27 (CNN): A historic bottle of whiskey can soon be yours -- if you have tens of thousands of dollars to spare.
The whiskey, bottled in LaGrange, Georgia, is about to go up for auction. The Old Ingledew Whiskey is believed to be the oldest known whiskey in existence, according to Skinner, which is facilitating the auction.
The online auction is set for June 22-30. Bids are expected to fall between $20,000 and $40,000, Skinner said last week.
Carbon 14 dating done in conjunction with the University of Georgia indicates the bourbon was likely produced between 1762-1802, around the time of the Revolutionary War and the Whiskey Rebellion, officials said. It's not clear where it was produced.
Skinner's rare spirits expert, Joseph Hyman, said in a statement the whiskey "is thought to be the only surviving bottle of a trio from the cellar of J.P. Morgan gifted in the 1940s to Washington power elite."
Financier John Pierpont Morgan reportedly bought the bottle during one of his frequent visits to Georgia, Skinner said. It is believed to have been bottled in LaGrange in the 1860s, according to the auction house, which said it was standard practice to store spirits in demijohns after being aged in oak barrels.
Jack Morgan, later gifted the bottle up for auction to James Byrnes of South Carolina and two sister bottles to Franklin D. Roosevelt, a distant cousin to Morgan, and Harry S. Truman in the early 1940s.
Byrnes gifted the bottle to a close friend and neighbour, Francis Drake, whose family safeguarded the bottle for three generations, according to the press release.
While this may be the oldest known bottle of whiskey, it's nowhere near the most expensive. In 2019, the Macallan Fine and Rare 60-Year-Old 1926 became the most expensive bottle of wine or spirit ever auctioned when it sold for $1.9 million.
75 Yarshagumba pickers stranded at Phu area in Manang
17 Jun, 2021
BCCI granted relief from paying INR 4816 crore to Deccan Chargers
17 Jun, 2021
KMC to provide emergency aid of Rs. 20 million for Melamchi flood victims
17 Jun, 2021
Only 26 per cent budget spent in Karnali province
17 Jun, 2021US to add federal holiday marking end of slavery
17 Jun, 2021
Update: China's Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship docks with space station module
17 Jun, 2021
India reports 67,208 new COVID-19 cases, 2,330 deaths
17 Jun, 2021
Vacant bed counts increase in Valley hospitals as daily COVID-19 cases decline
17 Jun, 2021
Major Australian banks hit by website outage
17 Jun, 2021
Prime Minister submits written response to SC on HoR dissolution
17 Jun, 2021