The largest private collection of whisky ever to go to auction has been unveiled with an estimated value of up to £8m ($11m).
The so-called "perfect collection" consists of 3,900 bottles, some of which are valued individually at more than £1m ($1.3m).
It is being sold by the family of the late Richard Gooding, a former PepsiCo bottling magnate from Colorado, for whom whisky collecting was a life's work.
Mr Gooding built and nurtured the collection over many years with regular trips to Scotland to source special bottles at auctions and distilleries before his death in 2014.
Until recently his collection had been housed in his "pub" at his US home - a room showcasing some of the world's most rare and coveted whisky.
The "library" of whiskies includes a number of bottlings from some of Scotland's lost distilleries such as Stromness Distillery, which makes Old Orkney, and the Dallas Dhu distillery that closed in 1983.
The collection also includes a bottle of 1926 Fine and Rare Macallan, one of which recently became the most expensive in the world when it sold for £1.5m ($1.9m).
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