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Macallan (Cask Strength) |
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| Year: |
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10 |
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| Strength: |
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58.6% |
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Highland |
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| Distillary: |
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The Macallan Distillary Ltd |
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Easter Elchies |
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Craigellachie |
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Scotland |
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| Founded: |
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1824 |
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| Website: |
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www.themacallan.com |
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| Colour: |
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| Rich, red, mahongony - like an old-style fireplace found in a Victorian middle-class home. |
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| Smell: |
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| Over-whelming smell of chocolate, but this is followed orange and the sherry embedded in the cask oak. Smells as though you are standing on a Spanish hillside at dusk and there are fires burning in the bushes beneath you. |
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| Taste: |
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| Hits like a wall. This is deceptive because, when it first hits the tongue, the roof of the mouth and the throat, everything is set on fire; you feel like you're tasting paraffin. But then, something changes, and it's smooth, silky and chocolaty. There's a beautiful after-taste of rich sherry and it becomes very moorish. |
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| Comments: |
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| This is one hell of a whisky, not to be taken lightly, and not to be drunk as an aperitif or something to use as a means of unwinding after work. This is a serious boxer that demands to be drunk and appreciated. But it is also violent enough to know that you'll only do it once in a blue moon. |
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| Rating: |
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6 out of 10 for drinkability
8 out of 10 for sheer audacity |
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