Macallan Glenlivet 12 Year Old Liqueur Whisky Bottled 1960s Gordon & Macphail

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 39 Year Old ‘Speymalt’ 1970 Vintage Gordon & Macphail

This Macallan was bottled under the Speymalt label. It is a distillate from 20th November 1970 (I had not even celebrated my first birthday!) and bottled on 1st September 2010, especially for La Maison du Whisky. It won a gold medal at the Malt Maniac Awards 2010, so it cannot be bad. After the first whiff, a smile already spreads on my face. This...

Score 91/100

Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak

The LCBO is keen to remind everyone that this expression was, at one time, so popular worldwide that stocks were virtually depleted. Well, fear not, for the intrepid purchasers at the LCBO have ample enough supply to see everyone through the next Global Macallan 18 Armageddon. Sadly, at $250 a bottle it rarely seems to venture much further than...

Score 89/100

Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak

I have tasted this whisky before, but I confess it was a while back. In addition, I tasted it while comparing it to the 12yr Sherry Oak, and probably others as well. What I'm trying to say is that my initial tasting was probably not the best, as it was clouded with other whiskies and before I had developed my palate (not that my palate is now...

Score 90/100