Macallan 1971 SV Crystal Decanter

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Macallan
Bottler	Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1971
Bottled Year	-
Age	27년
Cask Type	Sherry Butt
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	54.2%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Speyside

Flavor Profile

Dried Fruit

Oaky

Chocolate

Fruity

Vanilla

Creamy

Sweet

Honey

Spicy

Nutty

Floral

Citrus

Smoky

Peaty

Herbal

Maritime

Tasting Notes

Colour

amber – cognac

air Nose

huge, starting curiously vegetal and rubbery. Tons of sherry, extremely concentrated. Notes of anise (raki), fig jam, prunes, old rancio, dried bananas… Goes on with old rum and candy sugar, a little liquorice… Also burnt wood and burnt tyres, armagnac, balsamic and game. Incredibly rich. Keeps developing on salmiak… Quite monstrous if I may say so, a very classic sherry monster indeed, although it does get a little more refined after quite a while (spearmint, lemon balm, peppermint)

restaurant Palate

extremely powerful and sherried. Reminds us of an armagnac at cask strength. Quite rough in fact, with lots of kirsch but also drying tannins. Lacks roundness. Again quite some rubber, salted liquorice… Develops on spices, pepper, cloves, cinnamon… Very hot and sort of acrid and burning. Gets vinous (very tannic red like young Madiran). The finish is very long but still quite hot, tannic, drying, with lots of prunes and cooked strawberries. A rather rustic Macallan, the sherry and the wood not being too integrated on the palate after all these years. 84 points . Macallan 27 yo 1971/1999 (54.2%, Signatory, dark sherry butt #12/096/28, 652 bottles)

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