Product description
In 2015, The Macallan Distillery, in collaboration with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Lalique, launched the super-exclusive series “The Golden Age of Travel.” Each edition was inspired by a means of transport from the 1930s—a steamboat, an aeroplane, a train, and an automobile. In the final edition, which is inspired by an airship, the company used whisky distilled in 1940, first bottled in 1975 and again in 2019. The entire edition consisted of only 50 crystal decanters, of which 48 went on sale, the remaining two rested in The Macallan and Lalique archives. The decanter, with its stopper decorated with a compass rose, resembles a slightly flattened travel bottle from that era and is housed in a 1930s-style leather suitcase designed by the Spanish manufacturer of luxury leather goods Piñavall SL based in Ubrique.
Polly Logan, the distiller of The Macallan, describes the whisky as follows: "The immediate eye is drawn to the incredibly dignified and soothing colour of the whisky, like an antique oak piece from centuries ago. Its aroma is an unusual combination of old oak with a fading hint of smoke, dried fruit, orange oil and a surprising scent of spring flowers. On the palette again oak, dark chocolate, oranges, a touch of ginger and a shy whiff of peat smoke. The finish is infinitely long, like a memory of a journey we dreamed of all our lives."