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Macallan Elliott Erwitt Masters Of Photography. Cask number 0004378. Print number 32. 35cl. 58.0%. In presentation box. No outer packaging.
A single cask Macallan limited edition bottling released by the distillery at full cask strength as part of their Macallan Masters of Photography series. This bottling is #32 from the Elliott Erwitt range, the fourth chapter of Macallan Masters of Photography which was bottled in 2013.
The Masters of Photography was a sprawling series of special edition Macallans released in collaboration with six of the world’s leading photographers. Despite being in his mid-eighties at the time, the legendary photographer Elliott Erwitt travelled Scotland taking 158 photos for the book Elliott Erwitt’s Great Scottish Adventure, which is included here with a hipflask-style 35cl bottle of cask strength Macallan 1996 specially selected by Bob Dalgarno.
The Elliott Erwitt Macallan Masters of Photography was a particularly ambitious project encompassing 58 different single cask releases. Each release was a bottling of 35 sets accompanied by an individual print selected from Elliott Erwitt’s Great Scottish Adventure. This bottle came from Edition #32, which was released with a print featuring a family of sheep accompanying a bottle of Macallan from single cask 4378, which was distilled in 1996 and was bottled at its natural cask strength of 58%.
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.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
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| £1,350.00 | 7th January 2026 | 04:43 PM | |
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