Macallan 12 Year Double Cask Single Malt Scotch
| Article number: | P-11374 |
| Availability: | In stock |
Size: 750 ML
ABV (Proof): 43% (86 Proof)
Origin: Speyside, Scotland
Tasting Notes: On the nose - creamy butterscotch with a hint of toffee apple, candied orange, vanilla custard and newly felled oak. On the palate - deliciously honeyed, wood spices and citrus, balanced with raisins and caramel. Finishing with lingering oak, warm, sweet and drying.
How to Enjoy: Neat or On the rocks
New American oak barrels are seasoned with Sherry before then being sent to Macallan and filled with new make spirit and matured for 12 years. After 12 years, they then marry it with European oak barrel aged scotch that was also seasoned with Sherry.
The Macallan distillery was founded by Alexander Reid, a barley farmer and school teacher. The original name of the area was “Maghellan”, taken from the Gaelic word “magh”, meaning fertile ground and “Ellan”, from the Monk St.Fillan - who held a close association with the church that stood in the grounds of The Macallan Estate until 1400. Farmers had been making whisky on their Speyside farms in the area for centuries, using their surplus barley during the quieter winter months.