Macallan 1981 18 Years Sherry Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 43.0% Vol. - rare old bottling of a magnificent Old Style Macallan Highland Single Malt!
A rare vintage 1981 18 years-old Macallan Sherry Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, which was bottled in the year 1999 and today one of Macallan's rare original bottlings from the early 1980s.
This particular old style vintagte 1981 18 Years Macallan Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky was produced without the addition of dyes and chill filtration at 43.0% vol. 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 Macallan Sherry Oak Highland single malt Scotch whisky is one of the best-known and sought-after whiskies, 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.
In particular, the fine sherry oak bottlings in the old design from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s are now almost hard to find and fetch exorbitant prices at Bonhams, Kruger and Christie's auctions, with prices continuing to rise.
A wonderful and excellent vintage 1981 18 years Macallan Sherry Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky and rare expression in the old equipment bottled in the year 1999 for connoisseurs, the discerning whisky collector and lovers of fine old Scotch whiskies, which is rarely found today!
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Speyside
- Vintage: 1981
- Age: 18 years old
- Year bottled: 1999
- Cask Wood Type: Sherry Oak Casks
- Alcohol ABV% 43.0
- Bottling Series: Vintage 1981 18 Years Sherry Oak - Release 1999
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- Packaging original boxed - card tube (box with traces)
- Producer/Importer: The Macallan Distillers LTD, Craigellachie, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, number unknwon - rare collector's whisky!
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