Macallan 15yo 1992-2007 46% Murray McDavid
A refill sherry-matured Macallan from Murray McDavid, just because I'm worth it(du-du-du). Macallan is a distillery that I feel is hyped, but for all the right reasons. Pretty consistent quality, no extravaganza use of NAS-versions with gaelic names, committees or superlatives like "exclusives", "specially selected", "limited" or so on. A simple vintage is often enough. Smells of leather, sherry, fruity, orange zest, prunes, Bols egg liqueur, madeira and dried sage. The taste is classic sherried Macallan, prunes, peppery, dry herbs, cuban cigars, wort, a bit oily and some fantastic malty notes. I had this the other day alongside the Elegancia and it knocked its socks off.
My favorite Macallan so far: 8
Macallan 15yo 43% OB Tripple Distilled
Back from an amazing weekend in Aberdeen, and of course there were some whiskies tried. This was the first one, and I remember I tried it at the Blackfriars Pub near the east end in Union Street. It's one of these results of less available and more expensive sherry casks taking its toll on the Macallan distillery. The whisky is pale and smells absolutely nothing, exceptionally light. The taste is ever so clean, the light spiritness is just slightly disrupted by some notes of sour apples, dough and old dry crisp pastry. The aftertaste is at first raw and spirity, then turns to something of baby vomit.
What will happen when the older Sherry casks are all gone?: 2.5
Macallan 21yo 1988-2009 53.9% Signatory Vintage
A bourbon-matured Macallan, seems that's the way most Macallan bottlings are going these days, as the stocks of sherry-casks are higher in demand and much more expensive than before. But let's not be judgemental, this isn't an OB and it's distilled when bourbon-matured Macallans were far from the norm. Smells of honey and lavender, very gentle and subtile, some of the best fragrances in a long time. The taste is acidic, sweet, juicy, mangos, pears, nectarine, lots of fruity flavours. i know I have been quite harsh with the bourbon-matured whiskies from Signatory, but this one is amazing. One to save for christmas eve, or even new years.
My belief in macallan is restored: 8
Macallan 20yo 1988-2008 55.4% OB Bottled for David Tomlinson
I am very certain that this is a fake bottling. The bottle isn't similar to the bottles usually used by the distillery, there are no signs of this coming from the distillery, other than a poor white label, which states dates, caks# and that it bottled for David Tomlinson, written in times new roman and some crazy font. It smells spirity, maybe the abv is correct? It does taste awful, to me it's plastic, much younger than 20yo and of course, the aftertaste is like potato starch.
Must be a fake, if someone know otherwise, please write me!: 1
Macallan 11yo 50% Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask
On the label it says, pretty tacky, "Rather Sweet". Not necessary on a bourbonmatured young Macallan. Let's see, oh yes, it does smell awfully sweet. But not boring fortunately. There's some banana skin, pears, grapes and watermelon at first taste, I'd say it's rather fruity. With water the taste is also sweet, caramelized carrots, spring onion, vanilla, cranberries and plums. The aftertaste is short and peppery. A sorry ending for an otherwise very exciting malt.
Very well at first, but that's about it: 5
Macallan 7yo 40% OB Giovinetti & Figli
A rather rare bottling of Macallan, at a rare bottling age as well, or, nowadays with this crazy market anything above 3yo is considered a good bottling age, hence there's a funky gaelic name to put on it. The nose is very round and smooth, like the old sherried 12yo. God it's sweet, almost to sweet and delicate, sughar and chili, with a long aftertaste of tickling pepper. At this age, it shows why the older Macallans goes for ridicolous amounts of money at auctions around.
Nice Macallan, but it's just a tad to sweet for me: 6
MacAllan 10yo 40% OB
The OB's of Macallan is ususally very sherry-influenced, not necessarily a bad thing, although in my book there aren't much differentiations between from one to another. It has a very sweet, sulphury smell, sherry? Very dark, lots of caramel, sugar candy, and iced tea with peach flavour. This is a real confectionary malt for the ones with a sweet tooth. I'll guess it's popular among the older generation.
Bridgeclubmalt: 7
The Macallan 12yo 43% OB
Has a fresh smell of oak and mint, lots of other more subtle notes which unfortunately disappears behind the strong oak. Lots of cask influence. It's a whisky for trained palates, exciting if you can define all the different flavours. Sherry wood?
Almost like licking the cask: 5.5
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