Macallan 1996 18 Years Sherry Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 43.0% Vol. - a stunning and rare Macallan Highland Single Malt!
A rare vintage 1996 18 years-old Macallan Sherry Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky with the shiny-purple box, bottled in the year 2014 at 43.0% abv in a limited edition.
The 18-year-old Macallan Sherry Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is part of the series that gave Macallan its almost legendary reputation: the pure sherry cask bottlings. It was not until the mid-1960s that Macallan concentrated on sherry cask-matured single malts and was able to gain great recognition among whisky connoisseurs worldwide in a short space of time with its unusual cask policy. At that time, they experimented with different sherry casks and then decided to use European Oloroso casks, in which the world-famous Spanish liqueur wine had previously been seasoned. Despite the crisis in the 1980s among sherry producers, the Speyside distillery Macallan managed to secure a supply of selected sherry casks and to continue bottling the coveted sherry cask matured whiskies.
Today, the 18-year-old sherry-oak Macallan Single Malt is one of the world s best-known and most sought-after whiskies, enjoys an almost legendary reputation due to its excellent quality and the fact that it is bottled without colouring agents, and can certainly be described as an icon among Scotch whiskies. In 2004, respectively with the vintage 1986 bottling, Macallan changed the design and the packaging of the 18 years Sherry Oak, these bottles and packaging have a modern shape and were delivered with a shiny-purple box, from 1992 the bottlings were additionally marked with a security hologram on the capsule and an individual number in addition to the existing bottle code to protect against counterfeiting. In 2017, the vintage indication on the bottles was changed and the Macallan Sherry Oak Scotch Whisky now bears the indication of the year of bottling / release on the bottle label as well as on the packaging. Inspired by the Rare Cask series, Macallan then changed the design of the bottle in April 2018, presenting the distinctive v-shaped indentation worked into the glass at the transition to the bottle neck with optimised refill and counterfeit protection combined with an embossed box with a high-quality design.
In particular, the versions in the old design from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s are almost impossible to find today and fetch exorbitant prices at Bonhams, Kruger and Christies auctions, with a further upward trend. The Sherry Oak vintage bottlings from the late 1980s and 1990s are now among the most sought-after bottlings and individual vintages are now true collector s rarities!
- Nose: dried fruit and ginger, wit a hint of citrus, vanilla and cinnamon
- Palate: rich dried fruit, with spice, clove, orange and wood smoke
- Finish: full and lingering, with dried fruit, sweet toffee, ginger and a hint of wood smoke
- Overall: A top-notch dram, rich and satisfying.
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Speyside
- Vintage: 1996 and earlier
- Age 18 years old
- Year bottled: 2014
- Cask Wood Type: Sherry Oak
- Alcohol ABV% 43.0
- Bottling Series: 18 Years Sherry Oak - Vintage 1996 / Release 2014
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- Packaging original boxed (box with traces and scratches)
- Producer/Importer: The Macallan Distillers LTD, Easter Elchies, Craigellaichie, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, number unknown - rare collector s whisky!
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