A discontinued and much loved cask strength 10 year old Macallan. Bottled in their iconic white box featuring the Sara Midda watercolour of Easter Elchies house. He artworks are synonymous with Macallan of the period.

Giovinetti import for the Italian market.

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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