Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Bot.1990s

(31 customer reviews)

$850.00

  • Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • Distillery Bottling

70cl / 40%

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Description

Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Bot.1990s

Colour: gold/amber. Nose: fresh and clean, rather delicate at first nosing, with some nice notes of light honey and flowers from the fields. Some sherry but very little. Develops on lots of cooked fruits (mainly apples, peaches) and also ripe melon (small orange ones). Lots of caramel and praline too after a moment, before it starts to exhale some notes of gin and Schweppes (just a little). Then it’s back to the sherry, with some bolder notes of rubber, raisins, rum and freshly squeezed oranges. A nice nose, no doubt. Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Bot.1990s

Mouth: sweet attack, with quite some sherry again and some bold notes of apple skins, a little drying. Add to that a little burnt caramel and maybe a few spices (mulled wine, Chinese anise, cinnamon) and that’s it. The finish is medium long but a little indefinite – maybe some apples with caramel? Too bad, the nose was promising but the palate is very simple. Apples and apples.

Very, very good and amazingly young. Sure it’s not infanticide (yes, that’s an expression some use in the wine world) but maybe they should have waited another thirty or forty years to bottle it?

We seem to have move past the period of brands removing age statements. And entered into a period of them returning, but at a higher price than before. At least in 1792’s case. Its age statement returned not at Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Bot.1990s, but 12 years. I can see how that might help justify its new higher price, but it certainly didn’t make it a better bourbon because of it. It’s a bolder bourbon, with heavy rye spice and oakiness, but its lack of sweetness makes it unbalanced.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great seeing 1792 with an age statement again, but this particular brand might be better served with a slightly lower one as proven in the past. You can have a lot of fun tasting all of the variations in the 1792 portfolio, but the age old stereotype that older bourbon is better – at least in this case – is debunked here.

31 reviews for Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Cask Bot.1990s

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