Macallan

Macallan is a Distillerie of Whiskey located at Craigellachie in the area of the Speyside in Scotland. Created in 1824 by one named Alexander Reid, distilling belongs to the Edrington group.

Macallan is one of the most important distillings of Speyside, as well in production as in re-elected its whiskeys.

Distilling has 7 wash stills and 14 spirit stills of very small size and produces nearly 6 million liters of pure alcohol per annum. The ageing of the whiskeys is done exclusively in barrels of Sherry.

Its individual malts rich and powerful and are marked by flavors of dry fruits and spices.

Versions

There exists a very large variety of versions of Macallan.

The traditional production of Macallan:

The Macallan 7 years
The Macallan 10 years
The Macallan 12 years
The Macallan 18 years
The Macallan 1979 Gran Held
The Macallan 25 years
The Macallan 30 years
The Macallan cask strength

Macallan recently launched a new named series of whiskeys Fine Oak series , whose characteristic holds in the use of barrels of European oak:

The Macallan 8 years
The Macallan 10 years
The Macallan 12 years
The Macallan 15 years
The Macallan 18 years
The Macallan 21 years
The Macallan 25 years
The Macallan 30 years

There exists also a vintage range between 1926 and 1976: the Fine & Rare Collection .

Macallan is also used as bases blends for The Famous Grouse in particular.

sources

Whiskey_Magazine n°21 (July 2007)
Web site of distilling

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