WhiskyWitch
Macallan 12 Year Sherry Oak Cask
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
November 29, 2018 (edited January 27, 2019)
The nose is chocolate walnut fudge, molasses, dark caramel, with dark chocolate covered raisins and apples. On the palate: rich sherry, cinnamon pear and baked apples dusted in assorted baking spices and soaked in more sherry. This gives way to sweet grape, milk chocolate, tawny port, and plum. The finish gets a little dry, with walnut oil and some stone fruit where I would normally detect something like citrus peel in certain highlands.
I've tasted hints of sherry influence before, but I feel like I finally "get it" now. Macallan really lays it on thick, and I can't wait to try older ones. It's impossible to pile on too many decadent dessert-like descriptors here. I don't do cigars with alcohol, but I can see this pairing with Montecristo Memories, which have many of the same notes.
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