In the case of the 1971 Macallan, thirty years old, only 536 bottles were ever produced and the Australian allocation amounts to no more than a handful.
Bottled in 2002 the natural mahogany colour of the 1971 Macallan, complex and spicy in character, indicates maturation in a first fill sherry cask. The nose and taste are full of mixed dried fruits and wood spices, (cloves, ginger, nutmeg) with a long finish. One of only two butts selected as the best current expressions of this year, cask 4280, filled on the 3rd of May 1971, was bottled at natural cask strength without chill filtration. This whisky derives all of its colour naturally from thirty years in the cask.
