Whisky Macallan (The) Classic Cut 2023 Edition

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Whisky Macallan (The) Classic Cut 2023 Edition

The wine

An icon of Scottish whisky, The Macallan has brought us the 2023 edition of it Classic Cut, a prestigious single malt produced in small quantities and matured in former sherry barrels as well as French and American oak barrels. With its beautiful colour, it possesses an intense nose marked by fruits and vanilla. We also detect hints of well-ripened pear, fresh almond and elderflower which introduce the palate structured fine woody flavours that showcase the delicious flavours of vanilla and amaretti, the Italian biscuits made from almond flour. To this wonderful mix, we can add freshness provided by the lemon zest and pear flavours.
The Macallan recommends two different ways to savour this whisky; either enjoy it neat when it rests at more than 50% alcohol and the fruity notes stand out, or add a few drops of water and reduce it to about 40% which will reveal the almond flavours.

About the Producer Macallan

Macallan is to Scottish single malts what Petrus is to French grand crus - a monument! To this day, no other distillery has sold a single edition at such a high auction price as The Macallan 60 Year Old 1926 Dillon, which fetched £1.2 million in 2018.Macallan owes this renown to the excellence of its production methods and its sherry-cask maturation, as well as the business acumen of its owners who, in the early 20th century, set out to conquer numerous markets, and the aptness of their vision of the distillery and its single malt, which they recognized as being akin to a château and grand cru. This led to the whisky adopting practices from the world of wine, including vintage bottlings for all versions aged 15 years and older, with the help up until the late 1960s of companies such as Campbell, Hope & King and Gordon & MacPhail, who bottled and distributed the malt on The Macallan's behalf. The 1990s saw the appearance of elegant 25 and 30 year olds, including those presented in the Tudor Crystal Decanters range, presaging the change in direction The Macallan would take in the new millennium. In 1999, an outstanding copper-adorned curved crystal decanter was released for a 50 Year Old edition distilled in 1949.

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