Macallan 1974 BA Natural Strength

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Macallan
Bottler	Blackadder (BA)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1974
Bottled Year	1997
Age	22년
Cask Type	Sherry Butt
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	53.1%
Volume	50 ml 700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Speyside

Flavor Profile

Dried Fruit

Sweet

Chocolate

Vanilla

Fruity

Creamy

Honey

Nutty

Floral

Oaky

Spicy

Citrus

Herbal

Smoky

Maritime

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

orangey amber

air Nose

extraordinarily herbal and with a super old school salty, resinous and earthy sherry profile that also incorporates a stunningly drying, equally old school peat. Beautiful aromas of bitter marmalade, long aged yellow Chartreuse, aged Drambuie, crystallised ginger, heather honey and many more obscure liqueurs like the tar and fir varieties. Really this is a pre-WWII style of malt whisky that didn't even exist by the 1950s I would say. What a nose!

restaurant Palate

it has obviously lost a little power, but it retains this stunningly earthy, rooty and drying peat smoke that recalls many glorious Highland Parks of similar production era. Tar liqueurs, orange cordial, herbal syrups and cocktail bitters, eucalyptus oil and wormwood. This is truly 'Liqueur Scotch Whisky' - and strictly very little to do with modern malt whisky

timer Finish

surprisingly long given the up-front softness on the palate, I would even say it gathers power right into the aftertaste, returning to these variations on saltiness, pristine old school sherry, tar and herbal liqueurs, crystallised flower honeys and even impressions of very old Sauternes

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