Sold outNov 2022In short · Macallan (Speyside), 33 years.
“A deep russet hue led us straight into an autumn landscape with aromas of polished horse chestnuts, rosehip, birch branches, prunes, dates and figs.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 24.169 is a single cask of Macallan, in the Speyside region, 33 years old, bottled at 53.8%, released in the Nov 2022 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 24.x is from Macallan.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Above the Spey at Easter Elchies, in a manor house that predates it by a century, Macallan has made whisky since 1824 and turned sherried Speyside into both an art and an obsession. Raised in the finest Spanish oloroso oak, its spirit runs deep with dried fruit, spice and old polished wood, and its rarest bottles change hands for the price of cars. In 2018 it eased a spectacular wave-roofed distillery into the hillside, as though the ground itself had risen. Edrington's crown jewel.