Whiskey can get expensive. And if you have the money, auction houses are happy to cash your checks. For example, Bonhams auction house recently sold Macallan Anniversary 50-years-old for $40,460. At 77 proof, the rare Scotch was distilled in 1928. At this same auction, the AH Hirsch Reserve 16-year-old sold for $595, $200 more than it’s offered at an online retailer.

The world’s most-expensive whiskey, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was a $460,000 bottle of Macallan 64-year-old; it sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York in November 2010.