The Macallan

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The Macallan is a single malt Scotch whisky, produced at Macallan Distillery near Easter Elchies House, at Craigellachie in the Speyside region. Originally, The Macallan was only matured in oak sherry casks brought to the distillery from Jerez, Spain. Beginning in 2004 Macallan introduced a new main product, the Fine Oak series, with the whisky mellowed in bourbon oak casks as well as sherry ones^[1]

In 2007, a bottle of 1926 vintage Macallan was sold at a Christie's auction for $54,000, making it one of the most expensive bottles of liquor ever.^[2]

[edit] Bottlings

The distillery produces a number of expressions, the most generally available being the 12-year-old, though the 18-year-old is also well known. Expensive 25- and 30-year-old versions can also be found. Additionally, a 116-proof cask strength (i.e., non-diluted) version is widely available. The Elegancia, an 80-proof (as opposed to 86-proof) 12-year-old, is available only at duty-free shops. The Macallan is one of the ingredients of The Famous Grouse blend.

[edit] Sherry Oak series:

• The Macallan 7, 10, 12, 18, 25, & 30 years old
• The Macallan Elegancia

[edit] Fine Oak series:

• The Macallan 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 25, & 30 years old

[edit] Special releases:

• The Macallan (dated, in order of release): 1961 (40yo), 1946 (52yo), 1948 (51yo), & 1951 (49yo)
• The Macallan Replica (in order of release): 1861, 1874, 1841, 1876, and 1851
• The Macallan Vintage Travel: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
• The Macallan Exceptional: I, II, III, IV, V, & VI
• The Macallan Cask Strength: US & UK
• The Macallan 50 Years Old
• The Macallan Adami
• The Macallan Blake
• The Macallan Gran Reserva 1979, 1980
• The Macallan Gran Reserva 1982, 2002 bottling
• The Macallan Millennium Dec
• The Macallan Private Eye no age statement but edition includes one cask from 1961
• The Macallan Speaker Martin's
• The Macallan Lalique (in order of release) 50yo, 55yo

[edit] The Macallan in popular culture

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• The 12 year single malt is a favorite of Rush drummer Neil Peart. He referred to it many times in his travel memoir, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road.^[3]
• The Macallan is the preferred brand of The Howard Stern Show writer Fred Norris, who drank it at the June 8, 2006 roast of Artie Lange. Norris was initially offered Dewar's, but described it as "piss water".
• In the Japanese tokusatsu drama, Choujin Sentai Jetman, Gai Yuuki (Jetman Black Condor) drinks the Macallan.
• A bottle of the Macallan is on the bedside table in the movie Don't Look Now's controversial love scene. The writer of the film, Allan Scott, was deputy chairman of the company at the time.
• In Spike Lee's "25th Hour" (2002), Monty Brogan's (Ed Norton) lifelong friend Frank Slattery (Barry Pepper) orders a Macallan 18.
• In Mordecai Richler's "Barney's Version" (1997), Barney Panofsky is often drinking a Macallan.
• In the movie Brown Sugar (2002), Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis (Taye Diggs) orders a Maccallan 18 while playing pool with his soon to be ex-wife Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis (Nicole Ari Parker.)
• In the tv show Gilmore Girls, the character Logan Huntzberger frequently drinks a Macallan neat.
• In the TV series, "NCIS", Sr. FBI agent T.C.Fornell mentions having Macallan in his flask.
• In the TV series, "NCIS", character Anthony DiNozzo refers to his father as a drinker of Macallan 18.
• Novelist Iain M. Banks considered taking the pseudonym John B. Macallan at one point, because he's a big fan of Macallan.

[edit] See also

• Highland Distillers, the company that produces Macallan
• Edrington Group and William Grant & Sons, owners of Highland Distillers
• Whisky
• Scotch whisky
• List of whisky brands
• List of distilleries in Scotland

[edit] References

1. ^ Macallan Fine Oak (page retrieved 24 May 2006).
2. ^ $Cotch Whisky
3. ^ Peart, Neil. Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. Toronto, Canada: ECW Press. 2002. ISBN 1550225480

[edit] External links

• The Macallan website
• Official Macallan Events in the U.S.
• Dr. Whisky on The Macallan
• Whisky Magazine