Buy The Macallan Double Cask 18 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

To create Double Cask, Macallan brings new oak from America across to Spain. At least 18 years later, the whiskies are then harmoniously united with the best European sherry seasoned oak casks. This marriage creates flavors of rich dried fruits, ginger, and toffee.

• WHY: Macallan’s Double Cask is a fantastic offshoot of the Sherry Oak series, bringing more spice and complexity of flavor with its use of different oak types in the maturation.

• HOW: Macallan’s 18 year old Double Cask expression uses whiskies matured in both Sherry-seasoned ex-Bourbon barrels and Sherry casks to create a flavor profile that highlights the best of both worlds: the exotic spice and decadence of the European oak and the vanilla of the American oak. The Sherry in turn imparts its own dessert-like flavors of dark chocolate and caramel.

• WHAT: Macallan, along with Glenlivet and Glenfiddich, is one of the top selling Scottish single malts today, yet its dominance is a somewhat recent phenomenon. Founded in 1824, it wasn’t until the 1990s that Macallan began actively marketing its impressive library of ultra-mature whiskies. In 1999, the distillery was purchased by the Edrington Group, which began the expansion of both the distillery and the core range of available whiskies.