Macallan 12 Year Old Bottled 1980's 100cl

Macallan The Gordon & Macphail Speymalt 1974

This was the second Speymalt that we opened in July, the other one being the 1966. Very similar to the 1966 overall, yet sweeter and slightly less smoky were my thoughts. Nose: Sherry and chocolate with some sweetness of toffee and fruity undertones. Pleasant and deep. Body: Rich, and sliding toward the sherry, slightly smoky yet not...

Score 95/100

Macallan 12 Year Old fine oak

Unless you go to a real specialist restaurant you won't find many of your favorites on the menu. More often times I do find either Macallan or Glenlivet 12 year olds available. I always take the Macallan. To me, the most intriguing flavor that I get from it is raisins. There is some sweet sherry in there as well. Its a mid bodied dram that always...

Score 91/100

Macallan 21 Year Old 1990 PX Cask Creative Whisky Company

A Macallan as a Macallan ought to be: fully matured on sherry, in this case a Pedro Ximenez cask. If I am not mistaken, this 21 Year Old Macallan was bottled by David Stirk for the Dutch market, under his Exclusive Casks banner. It has a fantastic dark color from the sherry cask. Great expressive nose on all that you can associate with sherry and...

Score 88/100

Macallan Cask Strength

My relationship with “The” Macallan goes back to before my whisky journey truly began. I was gifted a bottle of the 25 YO by the husband of a patient. If I had known anything about Scotch I would probably never have accepted it (I was used to $20 bottles of Canadian rye from the LCBO that my father had bought when I was a teen). That gentleman...

Score 94/100