The Macallan 18 Year Old (D.1974, B.1992) / unpackaged /43%/0.75l
- Back in the 1980s. last century, The Macallan became the model to which consumers began to compare other single malts.
Product description
By the 1980s, The Macallan had become the benchmark against which consumers began to compare other single malts .
The Macallan 18 year old debuted in 1984, when the brand was already experiencing popularity outside Scotland. It was a whisky distilled in 1965, and for the next 20 years the 18 year old version would be bottled with a vintage designation. In 2004, other 18 year olds debuted: Fine Oak, combining The Macallan aged in sherry and bourbon casks, and Sherry Oak without a vintage designation. The Macallan presented here is a 1992 edition bottled for Italian importer Giovinetti & Figli. The whisky distilled in 1974 was aged exclusively in sherry casks from Spanish oak.
Aroma: extremely rich, blackberries, raspberries, ripe plums and cherries, dried porcini mushrooms, toffee, caramel, honey, a hint of cumin, traces of tobacco and peat smoke.
Taste : fresh and dried fruit, dark chocolate, hazelnuts, honey, gingerbread with lots of dried fruit, ginger, traces of tobacco and leather and peat smoke in the background.
Finish : very long and balanced, dried fruit, dark chocolate, oriental spices, oak and a hint of peat smoke.