Macallan 50 yo 1928 / 1983 Anniversary Malt 38.6%

Macallan 50 yo 1928 / 1983 Anniversary Malt 38.6%

Noting the proof you’d expect this to feel limp but no, it’s off to a brilliant start – balanced and deeply rich in the best dessert way you can think. Sweet and spiced with mulled wine and dark fruit jams in reds and blacks. Lovely chocolate, dry leather and old carpets just cleaned. Dessert spice galore and floods of red and black jam. Cedar extract appears, a touch of turpentine and woody-citrusy petitgrain. So thoroughly sticky and rich, yet with a bitter slightly medicinal liqueur side. Admittedly the tannins do begin to build up and there’s a point where its unavoidable. Then over steeped black tea, black wood oils and acrid burnt grass become evident, and it starts to break up after. It is a grand old 50 years old you see. Objectively as a whisky I would say 88/ 89 pts bearing in mind the proof but as a irreplaceable piece of whisky history it is of course measureless.