Macallan 1987 CA Original Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Macallan |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | Original Collection |
| Vintage | 1987 |
| Bottled Year | 2000 |
| Age | 19년 |
| Cask Type | Sherrywood |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | 354 |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
호박빛이 잔 안에서 깊고 조용하게 빛난다. 캐든헤즈 오리지널 컬렉션으로 나온 이 1987년 셰리우드 맥캘란은 향이 한 방향으로 몰리지 않고 그을음과 패션프루트, 흑연 기름과 자두 잼, 파이프 담배가 잘게 흩어져 겹친다. 46도의 입안은 건조하게 시작해 초콜릿과 건포도로 열리고 무화과와 마멀레이드, 귤이 차례로 번진다. 여운은 아주 길지는 않아도 건포도의 단맛이 곱게 남는다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
instant thrill. Amazingly focussed and yet complex, with dried and fresh fruits mingled with coal smoke and various oils. Sounds simple, it’s not. What’s absolutely striking is something that’s relatively rare in whisky in my experience, and that’s to be found more often in great well-aged wines, which is a profile that’s essentially tertiary, that is to say a gathering of myriads of tiny flavours rather than a few massive ones. Pure poetry, in fact. Just a few examples, soot, passion fruits, papayas, graphite oil (its quite graphity, in fact), plum jam, pipe tobacco, rhubarb… And dozens and dozens of other aromas. What’s particularly impressive as well is the freshness, we’re absolutely not ‘all on raisins’. My, we could go on and on…
restaurant Palate
very huge whisky! Starts dry, rather on chocolate and raisins (I mean, the black, rather dry raisins), but it just does the peacock’s tail after that, with figs, various raisins, marmalade, jams, chutneys, chocolates, a touch of bouillon, cigars, tangerines, a tiny metallic side, a drop of limoncello, some almonds, herbs (rosemary, sage)… The list is simply endless. Now the background is also a little gritty and slightly coarse, so to speak, say with more cocoa powder. That’s cool, these great whiskies are never schmaltzy!
timer Finish
maybe not the longest Macallan ever, and maybe the finish is a notch narrower, but these… raisins are beautiful