What is considered to be a bottle of the world's "most sought-after" Scotch whisky fetched more than $2.7 million when it sold at an auction Saturday.

The bottle of Macallan 1926 sold at Sotheby’s in London was one of 40 that had been aged in sherry casks for six decades, according to a report.

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It is the oldest vintage of Macallan to have ever been produced, according to the lot description.

"Of the 40 bottles drawn in 1986, a maximum of 14 were decorated with the iconic Fine and Rare labels, one of which was the record-breaking bottle sold by Sotheby's in 2019," the description read.

"Two bottles were released with no labels at all," it continued. "Of these two, one was hand painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon, a creation that saw Macallan’s own Easter Elchies House [immortalized] onto the bottle. When sold in 2018, it became the first bottle of whisky to surpass [about $1.25 million]."

The bottle that was sold was expected to sell for between $934,274 and $1.4 million, and it stunned many when it eventually fetched $2,724,967, becoming a "record for any bottle of spirit or wine sold at auction," according to Sotheby’s.

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Sotheby’s head of whisky Jonny Fowle described the taste of the Macallan 1926.

"I tasted a tiny drop — a tiny drop — of this," Fowle said. "It's very rich. It's got a lot of dried fruit as you would expect, a lot of spice, a lot of wood. Incredible."