Sherry Oak 18 Years Test 6a89b77520903
⏳ Drinking Window
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🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
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✨ Technical Specifications
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🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1824 by Alexander Reid following the landmark Excise Act of 1823, The Macallan is one of Speyside's foremost single malt producers, situated across a 485-acre highland estate bordered by the River Spey. Grounded by its historic spiritual home at Easter Elchies House, the distillery couples mineral-rich local borehole water with rigorously selected barley strains. Production relies on famously compact 'curiously small' copper pot stills that maximize copper-to-vapor interaction, yielding an exceptionally dense, heavy, and ester-rich new-make spirit from a tightly restricted cut. Maturation revolves around an exhaustive and historically rigorous wood regime centered on bespoke European and American oak casks seasoned with Oloroso sherry in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Led by Master Whisky Maker Kirsteen Campbell under the ownership of Edrington, The Macallan is universally recognized for benchmarks such as its Sherry Oak 18 Years, delivering signature aromatic layers of dried sultanas, candied citrus, ginger spice, and rich Spanish oak structure.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Malted Barley
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
43%