The world’s most expensive whiskey has been exposed as fake – after a Chinese businessman paid $10,000 for a single shot.

A dram from the unopened bottle of “Macallan 1878” sold for the four-figure sum at a Swiss hotel in July – making it the priciest glass of single malt ever flogged.
But whiskey experts smelled a rat after news of the sale broke and Sandro Bernasconi, of The Waldhaus Hotel in St Moritz, called in investigators to examine the $300,000 bottle.
The high-end grog was sent off to be tested by boffins at Oxford University – with shocking results.
Carbon dating showed the booze to be a near-worthless blended Scotch dated no earlier than 1970 – a hundred years younger than it was claimed.
The label was also riddled with mistakes, while the cork looked too new and the bottle was made of modern glass.
The unsuspecting victim of the scam was Chinese tourist Zhang Wei, 36, who has now had his cash refunded.
The bottle of Macallan 1878.Rare Whisky 101 / SWNS.com
Bernasconi flew to China to apologize and personally pay back the money.

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