The Macallan Edition No. 5 Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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750 mL in size

48.5% ABV Proof97

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The Macallan Edition No. 5 honors The Macallan’s dedication to natural color and the complex whisky-making process in partnership with masters at the Pantone Color Institute.

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The Macallan Edition No. 5 Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The variety and intricacy of natural color are honored in the Macallan Edition 5. This single malt, created in partnership with the Pantone Color Institute, honors the craft of whisky production as well as The Macallan’s reverence for natural color and painstaking attention to detail.

Blended by whisky maker Sarah Burgess, this fifth edition is made completely of liquid that has been aged in American oak barrels, which include both first-fill and refill sherry casks as well as first-fill bourbon casks. Each outstanding whiskey from The Macallan, which is 100% natural in color, is molded by its time spent in the finest casks, which mature, nurture, and create character. For this expression, the world-renowned color experts at the Pantone Color Institute developed a striking, never-before-seen shade of purple that reflects the complex, multifaceted, and mysterious blend of red and blue.

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Notes on Tasting

Toffee and vanilla with hints of pear, lemon basil, nutmeg, ginger, and oak. Fresh and sweet, the palate transitions from caramel to juicy pears and poached peaches. A toffee sweetness quickly follows, with subtle undertones of ginger and faint oak spices like nutmeg. It has a pleasant, lingering finish.

Concerning The Macallan rare cask

For more than three centuries, The Macallan edition 2 has called the Easter Elchies House, perched on a ridge above the banks of the River Spey, their spiritual home. Alexander Reid founded the first authorized distillery on the estate, which he named Macallan after an old church that had been destroyed by fire in the fifteenth century, and planted barley in the fields around the rental house in 1820. Reid would ferment and distill his excess grains during the sluggish winter days to create whiskey, which was frequently consumed straight from the still or sold to tourists who were passing through the town.

Currently, 95 of the 370 acres of the Macallan Estate are used for the production of Minstrel barley (an acre yields around 2.5 tons of barley year, which is sufficient to make 1,800 bottles of The Macallan). To produce a rich and fatty whisky, the distillery also enters into agreements with farmers to buy barley that is high in starch and low in nitrogen.

The barley is malted and mashed in one of The Macallan’s two mash tuns, which takes four to eight hours after harvest. Following fermentation with a specially cultivated yeast, the barley is twice distilled using copper-pot stills at The Macallan. The stills’ copper serves as a catalyst, promoting the production of delicious esters while reducing contaminants like sulfur.

Furthermore, production manager Alexander Tweedie claims that the oddly tiny stills, which are among “the smallest stills within the Scotch whisky industry,” yield a whisky with a rich, greasy flavor. After distillation, the Macallan distillers separate the whisky’s heads and tails and reserve around 16% of the spirit to put into maturation casks. This “cut,” one of the highest of any Scottish distillery, makes the whisky richer and fuller.

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Concerning scotch whiskey

The most widely consumed whisky worldwide, Scotch is regarded as the best of all of them! Each of Scotland’s five whiskey regions—six if you include the unofficially recognized Islands—produces spirits with special qualities and distinctive flavors. (The type of scotch is determined by the type of grain used.)

Grain whisky employs other grains, such as corn or wheat, while malt whisky is manufactured from malted barley. A single distillery producing a single malt whisky produces an exceptional product known as a single malt, but most whiskies are blended from various distilleries, hence the term blended scotch.

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