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The buyer was a private collector from Asia who
bid by phone, auctioneer Bonhams said. The firm sold one of 12
other bottles with a label by the Italian artist Adami in May
this year for 814,091 pounds.
Such whiskies are collectors' items because of their rarity and
will probably not actually be drunk, said Martin Green, whisky
specialist at the auctioneer.
"It's the Rolls Royce of malts," he said.
"Obviously we don't know what will happen to it, but anyone who
can spend around a million pounds for a bottle of whisky could
afford to drink it. But it's an object of beauty in its own
right - almost a museum piece."
Just 24 bottles of the whisky, bottled in 1986, were produced by
Macallan, among the best-known Speyside distillers of Scotland's
flagship product.
It commissioned Adami and Peter Blake, known for co-designing
the album sleeve for The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band", to each design labels for 12 bottles.
It is not known how many of Adami's still exist. One is said to
have been destroyed in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is
believed that at least one of them has been opened and drunk.
(Reporting by Elisabeth O'Leary; editing by Stephen Addison)
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