Macallan 1978 18 Years Sherry Wood Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 43.0% Vol. - rare bottling of a great old style Macallan for Remy Germany!
A very rare 1978 vintage 18 years old Macallan sherry wood Highland single malt scotch whisky, which was bottled in the year 1996 as a 70cl bottling for the German market and sole importer Remy Deutschland in Wiesbaden and is today one of the very rare original Macallan bottlings from the late 1970s.
This particular old style Highland single malt was produced without the addition of dyes and chill filtration at 43.0% abv and is part of the series that has given Macallan its almost legendary reputation: the pure sherry cask bottlings. It was not until the middle of the 1960s that Macallan concentrated on single-malts matured in the sherry barrel and, with the exceptional barrel policy, gained great recognition among whisky connoisseurs worldwide. At that time they experimented with different sherry casks and decided to use European Oloroso casks, which previously stored the world-famous Spanish liqueur wine. Despite the crisis in the 1980s among the sherry producers, the Speyside distillery Macallan succeeded in securing the supply of selected sherry barrels and filling the coveted Sherry-Cask whiskies further.
Today, the 18-year-old Sherry-Oak Macallan is one of the best-known and sought-after whiskys, enjoying an almost legendary reputation because of its excellent quality and filling without any dyes and can be described as an icon among the Scotch whiskys. In the year 1986 Macallan changed the design and packaging of the 18 Years Sherry Oak range. These bottles and packaging have a modern shape and from the year 1992 onwards, the bottlings to the existing bottle code for the protection against counterfeiting were added with a safety hologram at the capsule and each one have an individual number.
The early to mid 80s bottlings of the 18yo Macallan tend to show a much gamier, meatier profile with notes of Spices, cloves, oranges, dried fruit with some smoke and lots of classic sherry intensity. Super soft and typically luxurious in style.
An absolutely first-class single malt from Macallan in great condition and a special highlight for collectors, connoisseurs and lovers of extraordinary old style Scotch whiskies - today almost impossible to find and a true collectors item!
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Speyside
- Vintage: 1978
- Age 18 years old
- Year Bottled 1996
- Cask Wood Type Sherry
- Alcohol ABV% 43.0
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- Packaging original boxed (box with small traces)
- Producer/Importeur: Macallan Distillers LTD, Craigellachie, Scotland for Remy Deutschland Gmbh, Söhnleinstraße 8, 6200 Wiesbaden
- Country of Origin Scotland
- Unique old bottling and especially collector s rarity!
Please examine this product before purchase, as not new from the supplier. Due to various ages of the bottles, the condition of the liquid is at buyer s own risk.
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