Mr Michael Amphlett from Oxfordshire bought the 1937 Macallan Single Malt Scotch Whisky in the late 1970s as a gift for his father.

The bottle cost £11, which was roughly one-third of Mr Amphletts’s weekly wages in the 70s.

The bottle was saved for a special occasion before eventually being forgotten.

Since his father’s passing in 1991, Mr Amphlett found the bottle again and decided to put it up for auction at the start of this year.

The bottle beat the reserve he placed on it at Whisky.auction, achieving a £2,700 hammer price, The Drinks Business reports.

Mr Amphlett said: “I’m a complete novice when it comes to whisky auctions, and the fact that I’ve just made a lot of money from a bottle which I remember paying around £11 for 42 years ago is pure luck – but shows what stashing a bottle for a few years can do! Dad would’ve smiled at the price, and we have too. We’re off to south Goa!”