Macallan 1968 18 Year Old Vintage Label

SMWS 24.111 - Ginger beer and pickled walnuts

Last night the LCBO put on a scotch tasting that featured two new Macallans: the Rare Cask and the No. 6, both very good. The Rare Cask was fairly spicy, while the No. 6 was much subtler and quite extraordinary. Master of Wood Stuart McPherson was there to explain things: the Rare Cask is blended from whiskies 10-30 years old, whereas all the...

Score 78/100

Macallan Select Oak

The Macallan Select Oak is offered in the Duty Free range and thus comes in a 1 litre bottle – it costs around 60 EUR. The Select Oak is a marriage of whisky matured on three types of casks: American oak, bourbon casks and first fill European oak, all of them infused with sherry. According to the PR blurb the casks were handpicked by Macallan’s...

Score 80/100

Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Oak

When I had my first SMSW tasting, one of the expressions was The Macallan 12 Fine Oak. Not overly impressed (because the tasting was accompanied by an HP18 that overshadowed everything else), the Fine Oak was not a bottle I wanted in the near future but it was a formidable intro to The Macallan brand. I did however want and need a representative...

Score 88/100

Macallan Fine Oak Masters Edition

For decades, Macallan was known as the distillery that matured solely on sherrycasks, because they felt this creates the best whisky. We all know that sherry casks are quite a bit more expensive than the ubiquitous bourbon casks. Their high-end sherry-matured whisky sold tremendously. So much so that they ran into trouble sourcing sherry casks,...

Score 89/100