Macallan was acquired by Edrington Group in 1999. The Fine Oak Range combines mainly ex-bourbon cask matured malts, with discretionary amounts of sherry aged stock to achieve balance and complexity. The Macallan is a sherry cask single malt favorite, with a wide range of bottles aged in hand-selected sherry-seasoned oak from Jerez, Spain.
In the recent years, Macallans' philosophy for whisky maturation has moved away from its insistence on sherry-casks exclusively, to adopting a variety of cask types for parts of the whisky range. The contemporary Macallan Sherry Oak Range exemplifies this long tradition, with single malts exclusively matured in sherry oak casks The Macallan Distillers Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Edrington, which purchased the brand from Highland Distillers in 1999. The Macallan distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland. The Macallan 12yr Double Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky - 750ml Bottle. Cask type (s) Sherry (both American & European oak) and Bourbon (American oak) Map. The first batch of The Macallan was not deemed to be ready for the market until 1980: since then its popularity and success has been phenomenal. Shop Target for Whiskey you will love at great low prices Choose from Same Day. This is an expensive policy (the cost of a sherry butt is about ten times that of a bourbon cask), but it makes a major contribution to Macallan's uniqueness. When the availability of casks became a problem in 1976 the company began to buy its own new wood in Spain and have it seasoned in the bodegas of Jerez for four years before shipping it and filling it with whisky in 1976. Since 1970 and until very recently, the Macallan's entire output matured in sherry wood. Alongside its unusually small handbeaten copper stills, Macallan is perhaps best known for its emphasis on sherry ageing. Macallan was one of the first Highland distilleries to take out a licence in 1824, since when it has been distilled by generations of craftsman on a small estate over looking the River near Craigellachie in the heart of Speyside.Ī purposefully traditionalist distillery, no short cuts are taken in time, investment and production of the best glass (Kingles Amis).
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