7/7/2023 0 Comments Macallan whiskey rare cask![]() ![]() The flavor packs plenty of sherry-driven, dried fruits sweetness, such as raisins and apricots, enhanced by delicious currents of oak and earthy chocolate, plus a drop of vanilla. On the palate, the whisky is full-bodied without losing its silky texture. The scent is rich with raisins and citrus, with subtler notes of cocoa and nuts. That this is elegant, silky-soft stuff becomes apparent from the first whiff. It’s dark, very dark for scotch, imbued with a clay-red amber hue. Made with whisky mostly drawn from the kind of first-fill sherry casks that many scotch-lovers crave, the single malt is a bold statement to those naysayers making blanket claims that NAS whiskies always and necessarily represent a step backwards in terms of quality.īottled at 43% abv, the Rare Cask has the kind of appearance one would expect from a stronger, all-sherry cask whisky. ![]() market, turning that strategy on its head. Yet the Rare Cask is an NAS statement whisky for the U.S. In the past I have described this strategy of shifting stock so as to expand American sales as robbing Peter in hopes that Paul will pay off later. Heretofore, The Macallan was one of the single malt brands that was steadily replacing their traditional age statement expressions in the well-established European market with new, no age statement (NAS) whiskies, while keeping those same age statement single malts available in the United States. By releasing Rare Cask only in the United States, The Macallan accomplished a couple of noteworthy points, and one of them was perhaps by accident.
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