Tastes

Very friendly and easy start of your wisky journey and not hurting your wallet. Orange and honey on the nose. You can taste the ex bourbon hiding in the background. Short finish ready for another sip

Macallan 12 sherry oak should be your standard sherry wiskey or your bar right in the centre to compare everything else. On the nose obviously you will get this beautiful sherry dry fruit notes that you will get everywhere else who ever use the same cask. But here is the difference, you are not getting any bourbon candy sugary notes like the other. You still get your sugary notes on the nose but not sickly all over the place. It's unlike tomintoul 12 where it's sherry overload with nothing else. Unlike strathisla 12 where it has this additional beautiful floral smell. Macallan 12 sherry oak cask is just simple but done well, but not simple as in single note. You do get complex notes in there. On the palate you get all your dry fruit sherry notes with a little bit of lemon zest and wood spicy bitterness notes. Just a little bit there to add a complicity of the whisky and prepare for your next sip.

Very friendly single malt to start your journey. Pretty floral smell on the nose plus strong sweet artificial almond smell, smooth floral taste with some nuts and you can taste the white oak n smell as well. White oak carry on after taste but not as strong or as bitter as others.

Love the Beautiful Tuberose smell on the nose.

You will get lots of ex bourbon cask sugary profile plus a nice concentrate mint right in the middle which combine with smoky peaty and only a little bit of sherry note. Very gentle wave of varies notes from notes to your palate and at the end of wave is your American wood spicy note, not strong but just enough to tease your palate. Blue compare with green is less smoky, peaty and more gentle. Balance might be the right word.