John Pomeroy is the epitome of balance – in life and in his cocktails. Want to see more exclusive bottlings of whiskey? Check out 12 Extravagant Whiskies. Interested? Just curious about who would stock such an object of extravagance? Shoot an email to - they’ll be happy, I’m sure, to tell you where to find a bottle. And I haven’t seen every Macallan-bottled whisky ever produced, but I can guarantee with certainty that they’ve never made a bottle shaped like a dagger before. While it does use ex-bourbon barrels in the aging of some of its whiskies, you’d be hard pressed to find one bottled by the distillery that spent 46 of its 52 years in ex-bourbon. The Macallan is known for its sherry cask maturation. I also like independent bottles because of the differences from what a distillery typically produces. Not that £75,000 (about $92,000 given exchange rates as I write this) is cheap, but with only 228 bottles produced - a mere 11 for the US market - we’d likely be talking six figures and then some for this baby, were it an official Macallan release. That often makes independent bottles relative bargains as a result. Serious collectors tend to prefer their whiskies entirely aged at, and bottled by, the distilleries where they were made. This is considered both a good and bad thing in the world of high-end whisky collecting. While you can taste the sherry influence, it’s quite different from a typical (“classic,” if you will) Macallan. Rancio from the sherry casks, dry oak, raisins and sourdough bread predominate, complemented by hints of apricot and tropical fruit. On the palate it’s dry and rather spicy for a relatively low-proof whisky. This is all pretty gawdy stuff indeed, but what of the liquid inside? The nose is heavy on the malted barley, underpinned with aromas of vanilla and roasted hazelnuts.
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