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Macallan Gran Reserva 1979 18 Year Old

Macallan Gran Reserva 1979 18 Year Old
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Lot number: 021609

Winning bid: £580

Distilled in 1979 and bottled in 1997, this 70cl bottle is at 40% and was matured in sherry wood. In straw-filled wooden presentation box. The hinges are a bit loose.

A truly classic sherried Macallan, the 1979 is regarded as the best of the highly-sought-after Gran Reserva series released in the 1990s to showcase the extreme end of sherried whisky from the distillery. Scoring 91 points on Serge Valentin's whiskyfun.com, this is one of the landmark Macallan releases of the last twenty years.

Selected from the finest Olosoro casks and then bathed in the most sultry of Spanish sherry casks for 18 yrs. The first bottling was in '79 and the last in '82.