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Macallan 1977 - 1988. 10 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 24.8. 75cl. 57.7%. 101.1 Proof. No box.
A single cask Macallan 1977 10-year-old Speyside single malt whisky released in 1988 by indie bottlers The Scotch Malt Whisky Society at full cask strength.
This 10-year-old Macallan 1977 was bottled with the SMWS code 24.8, and is unusual as it is one of only a handful of SMWS codes that were used twice, presumably due to an internal error. Macallan 1977 SMWS 24.8 was bottled from a sherry cask without colouring or chill filtration at its natural cask of 57.7% and will be a spectacular dram for fans of sherried Speyside whisky.
The grandest of Speyside’s blue chip distilleries, Macallan was founded in 1824 and carved a reputation for luxury single malt whisky in the 1980s with string of 18-year-old and 25-year-old sherry-matured vintage single malts distilled in the 1960s and 1970s, building on the renown of earlier highly-regarded licensed bottlings by Gordon & MacPhail and Campbell, Hope and King.
In the early 2000s, as the supply and quality of even the best sherry casks declined dramatically, Macallan introduced their Fine Oak series, an initially controversial range of bottlings that included bourbon-matured spirit in the cask recipe. While the Fine Oak series took some time to find its audience, Macallan’s status as the top Speyside distillery - particularly at auction - was already well-established and today a legion of eager Macallan fans ensure that each new luxury bottling from the distillery sells out immediately on release.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has two venues in Edinburgh, a London bar and a string of international partnerships serving its 35,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
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| £725.00 | 7th January 2026 | 07:16 PM | |
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