Macallan Edition No. 6

Spicy but indistinct

Smooth, creamy, delish!

Really good. Not usually a Macallan fan but there's a lot going on here to enjoy...plum, cinnamon, fresh stone fruit, sweet orange, and oak. There's a continued honey throughout, ranging from honeycomb to sweet and dry. A coffee, toffee hint. There's a toasty puff at the end that is something I found unusual for Macallan but very enjoyable. I don't usually dabble in heavily sherried and sweet ones, and this certainly is not that one trick pony.

Caramel oasis

So here it is the final number in the Macallan number series. Each year Macallan picks a different color for their release and the colors of the series are 1-Brown, 2- Orange, 3- Yellow, 4-Green, 5- Purple and final number 6-Blue. It seems to me that Macallan was trying to make themselves their own infinity stone bottle selection, but decided to change one color, brown instead of red for number 1, so as to not get sued by Marvel for stealing their color selection. So now that I am about to finish my quest for trying every infinity bottle, here’s hoping for some super powers after tasting or better yet maybe just some really great whiskey. On the nose, the first smell is overwhelming me with spices of nutmeg, cloves, but the second whiff shows baked cinnamon apples, chocolate covered raisins, orange zest, walnuts, sour cherries and vanilla cupcake. So far so good, with one exception being a faint off-note hinting at sulfur. Then on to the tasting: a medium mouthfeel with no burn, sulfur, golden raisins, chocolate, cinnamon apples, walnuts, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla cupcake that finishes with a medium length and notes of cinnamon apples, chocolate covered caramel and golden raisins. Overall this isn’t a great one, I like a lot of the notes in it, but there is a lot of spice and sulfur that overwhelm a lot of the flavors. I was hoping this would be the best of the series, but I feel like number 5 was my favorite. Plus, after the tasting and completion of the series, I tried to snap my fingers at the end hoping to rescue some of those Ardbeg barrels that met an untimely death to make An Oa that @ScotchingHard pointed out in his review. Sadly it did not work, maybe someone out there with all the infinity bottles can open their collection, pour them into a blend, take a sip and try it for me.