ScotchingHard
Macallan 12 Year Sherry Oak Cask
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
April 23, 2018 (edited June 4, 2018)
33 open bottles in my collection ranked through multiple blind tastings. Counting them down!
#27: The Macallan Sherry Oak. Single Malt Scotch. 43% ABV. 12 years.
Paid $66
It’s overpriced, but what can you do, but keep it stocked in a bar? Women love it, and it’s a good decoy bottle for Bougie men as well.
The smell is delicious and instantly recognizable as Macallan. Rich, bready, plums and raisins. Floral perfume. Palate is a letdown, and the more recent bottlings are getting thinner and thinner. Very round, and very sweet. Everyone will tolerate this, but I do not love this.
MARK: 82/100
PREVIOUSLY, ON BATMAN:
#28: Eagle Rare. $37. 45%. 10 years. 80/100.
#29: Old Pulteney. $40. 43%. 12 years. 80/100.
#30: Balvenie DoubleWood. $50. 43%. 12 years. 78/100.
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Agreed that this one is slightly overrated, overpriced, and overexposed. Much prefer Glendronach. That being said, it's still a pretty tasty session dram!