That makes the bottle, which dates to 1926, the most expensive bottle of wine or spirit every auctioned, Sotheby’s said.
A year ago, a different bottle from the same Macallan batch broke the same record which it sold for $1.2 million at Christie’s in London.
Both bottles came from cask number 163.
“The electricity in the auction room was palpable,” said Sotheby’s Spirits Specialist Jonny Fowle in a statement. “There were cheers when the hammer fell on the Macallan Fine and Rare 1926, in what has to be one of the most exciting moments in the history of whisky sales.”