became a subsidiary of the Edrington Group in 1999. Today, the Macallan single malt whiskey is processed in the award-winning distillery located in Speyside, Scotland surrounded by a 485-acre estate. Two luxurious epithets that owe to their careful, deliberate whiskey-making process.įrom one of the first legally licensed distillers in Scotland, Alexander Reid, the legacy has been carefully passed on for many generations until now with the Whisky Mastery Team. Today, the Macallan is considered as the “Rolls Royce of Single Malts” and the “Dom Perignon of Scotch”. The Macallan whiskey brand is one of the earliest distillers of single malt whiskey in Scotland since 1824. 4 The Best Way(s) to Drink Macallan Whiskey.It’s a small aria in Macallan’s opera of sherry (compared to the NAS cask strength) but along with sherry comes chocolate and oranges and even a touch of oak. 🙂 Whichever casks they chose for batch 3454 all deserve a medal! The richness of the Macallan 18s sherry and spices blast to the forefront of your tongue. I’d like to pair this with Thanksgiving this year. From the soft, luscious baked apples to the cinnamon spices, it does not disappoint. Water brings up some unpleasant oak notes so if you’d like to enjoy this, like the Pappy Van Winkle 23, skip the water! As I bring the Glenfiddich towards my face to sip it, I’m immediately greeted by a bowl of fruit sugar! This pour is the most classy rendition of an apple pie in liquid form. There may be some grapes that are also present in the mix. The Kirkland is light on the tongue with Sherry and barley! If you’ve ever had Korean barley water (보리차), you’ll find yourself right at home! There’s a bit of light fruit which is no surprise considering the distillery chosen to source the 18 year old hooch. gifted me my first bottle last Christmas and I’ve already got a second replacement bottle for the inevitable demise of this liquid gold. In case you’ve never tasted this sherry and chocolate concoction, I’ll just leave a link to its previous review here. World famous for scotch lovers, it reeks of Sherry with bits of toasted oak. Freshly sliced apples are drowning in sherry (sherry apple pie O.O) and soft baked tree fruits are sprinkled in small dashes of sugar! This is heaven! Ahhh, the Macallan 18. The Glenfiddich has the fruitiest nose of the three… but that should come as not surprise to any Glenfiddich fans. There are also toffee notes strewn about the barley but they’re quite a bit more subtle than any typical whisky. The Kirkland 18 Sherry cask smells like barley! Sherry barrels generally impart a nutty and spice filled flavor into the distillate they cradle and the barrels that AM&Co happened to pick for Costco are a pleasant deviation from the norm. The price differential between these three bottles is also extreme so we’ll get a great idea of the value of each of these bottles. Two of these offerings are finished in sherry and the Macallan is aged in sherry alone so this should be an interesting comparison.

And in the third corner of our triangle shaped ring, we have the Macallan 18. In the second corner we have a bottle of Glenfiddich 18. In one corner we have a bottle from Costco, the Kirkland Highland 18 Sherry. There’s nothing worse than spending $200 (or more!) on a lack luster bottle that you purchased for a special event! And there are few better things that spending $60 on a bottle that brings joy to you and your friends.Īll of that said, today’s Scotch versus Scotch is a three way battle between some 18 year old offerings. We try to give an idea of the value of a bottle based on its flavors divided by its price tag and it seems to be a solid way to give the most objective review that we can.

No matter how many reviews we write, I can never get the idea out of my head that the worth that anyone has for a bottle of whisk(e)y is always subjective.

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