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.