With a price tag of around 250 EUR, I find it somewhat expensive for a NAS whisky. This Whiskymaker's Edition comes in a 1 litre bottle, available in the Duty Free range. Not sure if I liked the whisky too much or if I was just using it to take the edge off. My friend and I pretty much killed this bottle while watching a horror movie at his house. I liked it a lot better when it was Bob and myself sharing a drink. However, I'm now convinced that the mood and the setting had a huge part to play in that. When I first had a sip of this at our tasting I was floored. It started off nice and crisp but the slight maltiness threw me off a little. ![]() My sample is from a brand new bottle and served at 42.8% Using a combination of European sherry-oak balanced by American sherry & ex-bourbon this whisky has a number of ages in it but apparently none younger than 12. When asked about the curious 42.8% alcohol strength he told me that prior to January 1980 the standard bottling strength used to be 75 Imperial Proof before it was dropped to the current 40%. Known as the Whisky Maker he set about creating this one-off NAS expression exclusively for travel retail. ![]() To match color, taste and maintain consistency in all his whiskies without any caramel is quite an astounding feat.Īdd to the fact that he started his career at Macallan as a warehouseman and then worked his way through every stage of whisky making – mashman, brewer, stillman, warehouse supervisor, operations manager – to finally join the panel which selects casks for bottling in 1994 you can be sure he has my respect. The one thing that stuck with me as I interviewed him for my YouTube channel was essentially how hard his job is. He was a wonderful and pleasant guest and the whiskies weren't too bad either. I drank this whisky for the first time with Mr Bob Dalgarno, Macallans' famed whisky maker, when my whisky club hosted him not too long ago.
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