Macallan's 1824 range has done away with age-statements and instead focuses on the colour of the whisky. The concept being that the older the whisky is the darker it will be... Regardless of how true this really is, it's certainly a great whisky packed with assertive vanilla and citrus flavours.
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This burnished gold spirit presents a lemon citrus nose, the orange peel and an interlacing sweetness that softens but doesn't eliminate the zest. A quiet note of vanilla is followed by dark chocolate - more assertive, yet not overly so - with a lingering floral and light oak notes.
Citrus and boiled sweets rule the palate, along with hints of ginger and cinnamon, while soft oak tones reveal toasted apples.
The finish is medium sweet, malty and slightly dry.
I was given a bottle for xmas and was hoping that the recent reviews were wrong, unfortunately they were right. Smells ok but the taste is thin and has a rough burn. Wanted more but very disappointed.
Huge Macallan fan, but....this was a major disappointment! Here, let me get you started for the intro on the back of the packaging..."Our distillers have abandoned the time honored craft and see the advantage of short cutting..We're banking on the fact that our customers won't notice and if they do, they will think it's so bad that it must be the new standard. If this is the new normal for Macallan,....I'm done with Macallan!
I wouldn't pour it down the drain as some have claimed. It's not horrible, but it's severely overpriced for what it is. You can do much better for half the cost with a whiskey.
I paid more for this gold than I did for my first 12y/o a few years back but Im getting half of the flavor and half of the complexity, I will never buy a nas Macallan again,I think they need to mothball the distillery until they can again make a fine wisky.
I've bought this bottle because I trusted the Macallan brand, I have good memories of a very nice 12 year old that I had sampled a while ago. But the Gold is simply bad whiskey and expensive at that. It tastes young, flat, bland, with nasty rough undertones. I don't understand people giving it a good rating, are they paid marketing shills, don't they know what a good whiskey is, or is the production inconsistent and they lucked out on a decent bottle? Mine is one that will have me approach Macallan products with caution from here on out.
