Distillery
Tasting notes
- Nose
- Dried fruit, raisin, sherry, vanilla
- Palate
- Rich with raisin, dried fig, vanilla, and warm ginger
- Finish
- Long, with sherry and gentle spice
Flavor profile
dried fruitraisinsherryvanillaginger
How to drink it
- neat
Scotch · Speyside, Scotland
The Macallan 12 Sherry Oak
The sherry-bomb benchmark. Dried fruit and Christmas cake.
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- dark chocolate
- roasted duck
- Christmas cake
- dry-aged ribeye
Price tier
Splurge territory. $100+. Buy when you want something truly memorable.
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