Macallan 1997-2019 - 22 Year Old - Exceptional Cask - Single Cask 5542/02

INFORMATION

Macallan 1997 - 2019. 22 Year Old. Exceptional Casks. Cask number 2019/ESB-5542/02. One of 581 bottles matured in a European Oak Sherry Butt. 700ml. 57.6%.

A single cask 1997 Macallan 22-year-old bottled in 2019 as part of the distillery’s revived Exceptional Single Cask (ESC) series. Cask 5542/02 was a European oak sherry butt filled in 1997 and bottled at its impressively potent natural cask strength of 57.6% in 2019, yielding a total of 581 bottles. An epic sherrybomb Macallan of the best kind.

DISTILLERY:Macallan

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:57.6%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:581

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:5542/02

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Speyside

DISTILLED YEAR:1997

BOTTLING DATE::2019

AGE:22

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.