Part of the largest ever collection of whisky sold for a staggering £211,000 in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
The Willard S Folsom collection has been split for sale in the capital, Hong Kong and New York and had been estimated to fetch £300,000 in total.
A third of the bottles went under the hammer in Edinburgh on Wednesday, with experts predicting they would raise £80,000.
However, enthusiasts spent more than double what was expected, with one rare Dalmore going for a massive £23,000.
A further two and a half thousands bottles from the hoard are still to go on sale in the other two cities, with experts valuing those at £220,000.
However, it remains to be seen whether the bottles still to be sold exceed financial expectations in the same way.
Amassed over an 18-year period, the collection features wide ranges of some of Scotland's most famous whiskies, including Ardbeg, Bowmore, Glenfiddich, and Glenmorangie, as well as some commemorative and celebration malts.
Bonhams Whisky Specialist, Martin Green, said: "In over 20 years of conducting whisky auctions, this is the most exciting collection I have ever handled.
"Many of the bottles included in the collection will never be released again or repeated by the whisky industry and so the sale of the collection provides the opportunity to buy many collectables of the future."
The collection's owner, Willard Folsom, had an adventurous life which saw him work as everything from a race car driver to a salsa dancer.
After reading an article in USA Today in 1988, he took his wife to a bar near their American home and had his first taste of single malt.
Over the next 18 years, Folsom established relationships with Scotch enthusiasts from San Francisco to Dufftown and toured the Highlands, the Lowlands, Speyside, Islay, and Orkney.
He used to purchase whisky from all over Scotland and have it shipped to a hotel in London, where it was looked after by the Scots manager until he returned with his family to collect his deliveries.
Folsom used to say: "Some say the glass is half empty, others say it's half full. I say, pour the water out and put some Scotch in that glass."
