Macallan 2005/2024 1st Fill Sherry Hogshead #22606305 LMDW Foundations Gordon & Macphail 56.5% 700ml (WF89)

Details：

Distillery: Macallan

Bottler: Gordon & MacPhail (GM)

Bottling serie: Speymalt

Vintage: 2005

Bottled: 2024

Stated Age: /

Casktype: First Fill Sherry Hogshead

Casknumber: 22606305

Number of bottles: 343

Strength: 56.5%

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose: Rich, deep. Initially very elegant, the aromatic palette is floral (white lilac, lily of the valley), candied (lemon, orange), medicinal (balm), and herbal (hay, alfalfa). Increasingly concentrated, it becomes malty, spicy (ginger, cinnamon), and milky (rice pudding).

Palate: Dynamic, sleek. Tinted with exoticism (banana, pineapple), the taste palette also reveals a delightfully liqueur-like quality (old Sauternes). Nobly spiced (cardamom), it lingers on flavors of precious wood (sandalwood) and incense. The mouthfeel is beautifully grainy (rice).

Finish: Long, silky. Increasingly indulgent, the tasting becomes a delicious excuse to savor calissons from Aix, chew on a stick of licorice, or enjoy the smoke from a fine Havana cigar. Long after, the retro olfaction is pastoral and floral (dandelion).