Colour: full amber. Nose: starts really powerful, very chocolaty and quite smoky. Surprisingly phenolic for a Macallan. Lots of liquorice as well, coffee, dried fruits… Rather complex, and definitely full-bodied. Wow! Mouth: ample, powerful, invading, nervous… There is sulphur but it’s far from being a problem here. It gets surprisingly lemony, citrusy, and also quite salty (salted butter caramel, salted liquorice). The sherry gets bolder and bolder then, the whole getting a little vinous. Quite a beast, let’s try it with a few drops of water: right, the profile doesn’t change much, maybe it gets a little drying now… Anyway, an excellent, beastly Macallan – for big boys? I like it a lot.

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