Macallan 1979 SS Crystal Decanter

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Macallan
Bottler	Silver Seal (SS)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1979
Bottled Year	2004
Age	25년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	46.0%
Volume	1000 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Speyside

Flavor Profile

Chocolate

Dried Fruit

Vanilla

Sweet

Creamy

Oaky

Fruity

Honey

Spicy

Nutty

Floral

Herbal

Citrus

Smoky

Maritime

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

amber/bronze

air Nose

same style as the 1958, with again these fino-ish notes, walnuts, leather, tobacco, humidor… It’s rather less expressive than the 1958 but there’s also more menthol and eucalyptus, so maybe the casks were a little more active. Hard to say… Also touches of old ham, almonds, even ideas of yellow curry... So yeah, the complexity is pretty immense

restaurant Palate

oh yes, this one is incomparably more on menthol than the 1958 and it seems that there’s much more peat as well. It’s even quite medicinal and sort of Taliskerish. Some tar, cough lozenges, angelica, chartreuse, even a little aniseed, maybe wormwood, marzipan, crystallised oranges... This time we’re having a big whisky but it’s true that it was bottled at 45.5% vs. 43. Brilliant even if no whisky lover who would have never tried some old Macallan would tell you this can be, well, Macallan

timer Finish

long this time, with some pine sap, eucalyptus drops, After Eights, mint, fir honeydew… In fact, it’s quite resinous. A little old wood in the aftertaste

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