- Raided Score: 92
- Publication: Whisky Advocate
- Excerpt: Extremely smooth on the palate, with more dried fruits, ripe plums, milk chocolate, new leather, and black pepper. The finish is medium in length, with leather and dark chocolate.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: Whiskey Raiders
- Excerpt: Overall, not the most impressed with this edition, especially compared to 4 and 6. This is more barrel forward than malt driven and the peppery wood influence isn't doing so hot.
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Intro:
The 5th Edition in Macallan's Edition line, this specific bottling sees maturation in 3 types of vessel: 1st fill barrels, 2nd fill barrels and American Oak hogshead.
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Nose:
Tons of caramel initially, wafer cookie, oak, dry pepper and some spice. Not super complex, far from a sherry bomb.
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Taste:
Thin to medium mouth feel. Barrel forward to say the least - quite a bit of tannin, toffee, vanilla bean, caramel, pepper and almost a hint of rye spice.
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Finish:
Medium finish. Dry, a bit of caramel, pear, rising bread.
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Overall:
Overall, not the most impressed with this edition, especially compared to 4 and 6. This is more barrel forward than malt driven and the peppery wood influence isn't doing so hot.
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Score:
5
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources