Dark dried fruit, oloroso sherry, espresso, leather and a coil of soft peat smoke.
Rich and unusual — raisin, fig, dark chocolate, charred oak, cinnamon and gentle peat woven through the sherried core.
Long, smoky-sweet and warming with sherry, dark fruit and lingering wood smoke.
Macallan Rare Cask Black is one of the very few openly peated bottlings from a distillery built on its sherry-cask reputation.
Founded in 1824 on Easter Elchies estate, Macallan is famed for its small stills, sherry-cask programme and obsessive wood policy.
The nose is unmistakably Macallan — dark dried fruit, oloroso, espresso and leather — but with a curl of soft peat smoke woven through.
A genuinely interesting Macallan.
Joe has spent over fifteen years immersed in the whiskey industry, beginning his career at a Speyside distillery before moving into drinks journalism. As Editor-in-Chief at Whiskeyful.com, he oversees...
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