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The Macallan
Red Collection is a new collection of
the oldest and rarest whiskies ever
released from the Speyside distillery
combining the
distillery's oldest-ever ongoing
bottlings a 40, 50 and 60 year old with
a limited release of some of the oldest
ever released by The Macallan a 71, 74
and 78 year old.
The Macallan Red Collection is an
extraordinary new, mature, aged series of
single malt whiskies from the Macallan distillery,
a distillery
which is often coveted by whisky
enthusiasts and collectors for its ruby red
sherry influenced older aged single malts.
The Macallan
Red Collection combines the distillery's
oldest-ever ongoing bottlings with some
of of the oldest limited release
bottlings ever released by The Macallan.
The
youngest whisky in the collection is a
40 year old and incredibly the oldest
whisky is 78 year old and even more
incredible is the fact that three of the
whiskies launching with the new collection are over
70 year old.
All the whiskies in The Macallan Red
Collection are as follows, and as you
can imagine you will need very deep
pockets if you want to taste any of
them:
- The Macallan Red Collection 40
Year Old – RRP £11,300
- The Macallan Red Collection 50
Year Old – RRP £37,500
- The Macallan Red Collection 60
Year Old – RRP £49,000
- The Macallan Red Collection 71
Year Old – RRP £58,500
- The Macallan Red Collection 74
Year Old – RRP £61,500
- The Macallan Red Collection 78
Year Old – RRP £65,500
At the heart of The Red Collection is
the ongoing expressions of The Macallan 40 Year Old, The Macallan
50 Year Old and The Macallan 60 Year
Old. These three single malts will
anchor the range for years to come and
they are the oldest ongoing expressions
that the distillery has ever released.
From time to time the 40, 50 and 60 year
old will be joined by special high aged
guest releases, which contain some of
the oldest bottlings ever released in
The Macallan's history such as the
Macallan 71, 74 and 78 year old whiskies
The Red Collection is launching with, in
fact the Macallan 74 and 78 year old are
the oldest Macallan whiskies ever
released.
Even given the price tag on The Macallan Red
Collection I suspect they may sell very
quickly so if you are interested in any
of the bottles you will find them
available from specialist online whisky
retailers, they are already
available from
The Whisky Shop and
will soon be available from
The Whisky Exchange and
Master of Malt
To mark the release of The
Macallan Red Collection a extremely rare, complete set of The Red
Collection with exclusive labels
illustrated by Javi Aznarez whose work
will feature in Wes Anderson’s upcoming
feature, The French Dispatch, will be
auctioned by Sotheby’s to raise funds
for global food charity City Harvest,
which redistributes surplus from the
food industry to vulnerable people
across London. The Sotheby’s auction
runs from 22 October to 31 October 2020
and is estimated to fetch between
£200,000 and £800,000.
So what about the whisky in the bottles,
well this is what The Macallan say that
you can expect to find in bottles:
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