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.

A Speyside whisky distilled in 2002 and bottled in 2018 by Meadowside Blending Co., matured for 16 years in sherry casks. Although it is not known for certain, this whisky is thought to have been produced at the Macallan distillery. The Meadowside Blending Company was founded in 2011 by Donald Hart and his son Andrew. Donald Hart used to be the director of Hart Brothers alongside his brothers Iain and Alistair. The company was sold in 2007 and Donald returned to the industry with the brand The Maltman a few years later. A limited edition of 681 bottles.