Macallan reviews

Soft sweet fruity and malty arrival develops a short spicy balanced finish. Good beginning scotch for people who need to fill their cabinets due to a bottle shaped empty space.

Nose (Undiluted): Wood (freshly-cut Cherry crossed with White Oak) and Licorice.Palate (Undiluted): Lots of wood, very light spice.Finish (Undiluted): Medium finish with lingering light oak.Despite the…

The Macallan distillery was founded in 1824 by Alexander Reid and was operated from the original buildings of Macallan farm. At the time it was named Elchies distillery after a nearby estate. The dist…

First vapor: Sherry; the grapy scent of pure ethanol.Nose: Spirity concord grapes, over deep walnut oil. Further breathing shows brown sugar and cocoa powder, with a whisp of allspice or clove.Palate:…

First vapor: Light purple grape flesh.Nose: Purple grape upfront. A smoothly dense vanilla/white-chocolate follows up. A cool sharpness is revealed with deeper breaths: almond skin, orange zest, and the…

First vapor: Almond or amaretto.Nose: Fresh unsalted butter, covering a lemon/almond sharpness. Then steamed barley appears before vapors replenish.Palate: Light and flat entrance like unsalted steamed…

My official rating is for the original tasting. (I rated 4 points lower for a sample that had been allowed to oxidize for a couple weeks. Changes are noted below.)Nose: A young, grassy type of lemon,…

For the 1994 bottling.Nose: Purple grape & sugarcane, at first. Then adds cocoa, as fine and dry as cinnamon powder... and with a punch as sharp as orange zest. After more time, vanilla and butterscotch…

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…

...in my opinion. Or it may just be that I'm not as fond of sherry monsters as I thought. Because it's all sherry, here -- with toffee and cranberries in the nose, along with earthy wet blossoms. There's…