The Macallan 18 is a Speyside whisky. Macallan uses sherry oak casks from the Jerez region of Spain for a two year finish.
It has a scent of wood and sherry, and the main flavours are consistent with its nose. The sherry makes it taste quite unlike a straight-ahead scotch, which makes me unlikely to drink it except for special occasions. As finished scotches go, however, it's very subtle. The Macallan 18 doesn't taste as flavoured as The Glenlivet French Oak.
This whisky has a sweet, charcoal finish. I can recommend it highly.
More notes:
After tasting it with water: some of the flavor moves into the nose, separating the sweetness on the tongue from an intense charcoal flavor in the sinuses. The taste of sherry is greatly diminished. I prefer this scotch with water.
Posted by peter at March 12, 2004 10:25 PM