| #364 Macallan 1980 18 YO Single Malt Scotch (Northern Highands) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This cost is what I found the likely shelf price for a 750ml bottle to be, based on an average of costs throughout the USA. Your price may differ significantly. This is not an advertisement of sale, this bottle is likely empty by now anyway Cost | $15000 |  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bottler | Official Bottling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 43% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tasting # 396: And even MORE Macallan (05-OCT-2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Had I preplanned this a bit better I could have worked up to the 25 and started here, with the 1980 - 18 year old. Yeah, it's a bit out of date and you're not going to run into it a decade after it was released, but I enjoyed comparing it to the other Macs on my list. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Impression | More Macallan labels, nothing drastic here. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smell | It's Macallan's dry wheat flour and oak plus a bit of citrus. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | Sharp in the front, quite a bite of wood and orange zest that hits you quickly. There's not much of a build, that front just holds and shifts to more oak before the fade. Here things are a bit better, the wood shows some character and you get more barley and wheat. The finish is fair, but just when things are getting good you get a last hurrah of oak and you're done. Skip the water if you ever happen to cross this one's path. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tasting Score | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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