Macallan 1990 13 Year Old ESC 4

Macallan Cask Strength

Nose: Intense, immediate rich grapes, raisins, and cinnamon. This is a younger, sherry whisky indeed. 21/25 Taste: Creamy, coffee, treacle, intense raisins, cocoa, vanilla, and lovely spice. 22/25 Finish: Lingering, this one does not finish quickly, developing sweetness and fresh brewed tea. For a sherry whisky, this does deliver like a younger...

Score 86/100

Macallan 12 Year Old fine oak

Nose: A wave of wood and spice. Old musty oak, cedar, and pine. The wood is beautiful. Crisp, clean, dry, and spicy. There’s also something quite grassy in here. I’m momentarily reminded of a well aged rye. Next comes fruit. Apples, pears, citrus rind, and dried mango. Sherry, sweet caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, rosemary, and floral notes seem to...

Score 83/100

Macallan Speymalt Gordon Machpail bottled 2013

I have mixed feelings about this bottle. Maybe when it's had a chance to age it might change. It is very pale, lighter than champagne and very sparkly in the glass. The nose is oak, rubber and quite earthy. It is fairly musty. The palate delivers honey, oak with spicy tang and a pepper bite. Pleasant. The finish is medium long and the honey really...

Score 80/100

Macallan 25 Year Old Fine Oak

Stunning opening with great display of fresh fruit, red berries, clean sherry, toasty nuts and fine oak. Almost explodes into the mouth then takes luxuriant flow across the palate dropping wave upon wave of superb flavours. Barley sugar and vanilla are there in the great complexity yet with dignity and in a way very delicate. Wonderful whisky.

Score 91/100