![]() ![]() Nose: Rich and thick, full of raisins and plums, balsamic with brown sugar, subtle smoke amongst old leather furniture, and a hint of a musky, vegetal note. Vanilla and chocolate lead the finale along with a light citrus zest.įINISH: Warming and woody. Oak resonates, timeless, polished and rich. PALATE: This spicy quartet are unwavering. All balanced by a spicy quartet of root ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. NOSE: Soft notes of opulent vanilla and raisin give way to a sweet ensemble of apple, lemon, and orange. Taking inspiration from The Macallan’s iconic triangle and designed to celebrate its natural color, Rare Cask is presented in a sculpted, heavy glass decanter. Far less than 1% of casks maturing at the distillery have been identified as fitting to bestow the Rare Cask name – and enable the creation of this multifaceted single malt. With rarity at its core, this is a whisky that will slightly differ in makeup from bottling to bottling with some casks so rare they will never be used again in any other Macallan. This relationship between cask and craftsman, spirit and skill, ultimately give us Rare Cask. It is the role of the whisky making team to get to know each and every cask in detail, from how it interacts with the spirit to the spectrum of colours it imparts. ![]() Incomparable access to the most extensive range of cooperages in Spain gives us some of the finest and scarcest casks to choose from to create Rare Cask, which results in a diversity in the finished whisky unlike other Macallan expression. Hand-picked by our whisky making team, the combination of sherry seasoned American and European oak casks – a high proportion of them first fill – deliver an exquisite and unmistakably woody whisky with a rich hue. Rare Cask combines knowledge, skill, passion, commitment and creativity to create a remarkable whisky worthy of its name.Ĭrafted to showcase complexity and depth, Rare Cask is drawn from the broadest spectrum of casks used in maturation on The Macallan Estate. By comparison, the Macallan 1950 is frankly “affordable.” And it’s perhaps just as rare: Just 336 bottles have been filled for the entire world.We would like to thank Paul (check out his reviews here, or on Dapper Drams) for sending us a sample to review. Several bottles of that have sold in excess of $1 million. The star of most of these auctions has been the legendary Macallan 1926 vintage. Those prices may seem outrageous, and perhaps they are, but the market is showing some people paying for these vessels of whisky history-over the last year Macallan has seen record after record broken for auctions of rare bottles. We’ve sampled peated Macallan in the past few years, in the form of releases like the 72-year-old Macallan that came out earlier this year, or one of the half-dozen or so similarly ancient releases of the last decade, like the 50-Year-Old released a few months ago for $35,000 a bottle. The brand is never short on exquisite and rare whiskies in its library of barrels, and these peated releases are no exception. This range has long been a boon to people searching for interesting bottles of Macallan its releases have in the past been diverse in age and price point. ![]() The Exceptional Cask range of Macallan is a bit of an exception to the rule: While most of its whiskies are careful batches of multiple casks, Exceptional Cask is its answer to the single barrel-an incredible whisky from one oak vessel and one vessel only. ![]()
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