Macallan 2002 Speymalt Gordon & Macphail

Macallan Select Oak

Color: gold. Nose: a bowl full of raisins with some prunes mixed in for good measure. Light undercurrents of red apples and vanilla. Just a hint of orange peel zest. Water brings forth moist banana nut bread. Very sweet and fruity. Body: medium but creamy. Palate: yes, fresh-baked banana bread with walnuts and raisins right up front with some...

Score 89/100

Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak

For the 1994 bottling. Nose: Purple grape & sugarcane, at first. Then adds cocoa, as fine and dry as cinnamon powder... and with a punch as sharp as orange zest. After more time, vanilla and butterscotch round out the spices, and the grape seems more like strawberry. Palate: Enters as a dry woody oak, just rounded out by faint grapy...

Score 93/100

Macallan 15 Year Old Fine Oak

In the Fine Oak Series there is a 10 Year Old, 12 Year Old (see my previous reviews), 15 Year Old, 21 Year Old and even a 30 Year Old. Unfortunately I have not yet tasted the 21 and 30 Year Old. I recently had the 10 Year Old and the 12 Year Old. Now let us compare this to this 15 Year Old Fine Oak. This 15 Year Old differs quite a bit from his...

Score 88/100

Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Oak

I thought the color was somewhere between dark gold and brandy. The nose was packed with marshmallows, vanilla, sugar, and latex paint. I like the smell of latex paint on a hot summer day, and that's what I found wafting from the glass from about one foot away. The palate was filled with wonderful toffee, wood smoke, and brown sugar. The finish...

Score 85/100