Rare Finds / Macallan, Highland Single Malt The Red Collection 40YO Bottled 2020, Speyside
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Macallan, Highland Single Malt The Red Collection 40YO Bottled 2020, Speyside
The youngest of the six that opened The Red Collection in October 2020, at 48.1% and in the colour the distillery records as Antique Gold. Forty years in sherry-seasoned oak, and the first of the forties. The forty, fifty and sixty year olds are the expressions The Macallan returns to; each release is drawn from different casks and bottled at its own strength, so the year on the label is what separates one from the next. The oak presentation box is made by hand in the UK from the same European oak the distillery uses for its casks, upholstered in leather from Bridge of Weir.
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1x70cl
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Details
ProducerThe Macallan
TypeSingle Malt Scotch Whisky
RegionSpeyside
Age40 years old
Released2020
ABV48.1%
Bottle size70cl
Pack size1x70cl
CountryScotland
Producer profile
The Macallan has distilled single malt on the Easter Elchies estate in Speyside since 1824, under one of the first licences granted after the Excise Act. Its character rests on a narrow set of choices held to over generations: curiously small stills, a notably narrow spirit cut, and sherry-seasoned oak the distillery controls closely — its owner holds a half-share in the Jerez group behind Valdespino, and its casks are coopered and seasoned to the distillery's own specification before any whisky goes near them. That oak gives colour as well as character, from light gold through to deep mahogany.
The older stock, laid down long before single malt commanded serious prices, is the foundation of the releases that now define the top of the category. A Macallan distilled in 1926 and bottled sixty years later, one of twelve carrying a label by the artist Valerio Adami, sold at Sotheby's in 2023 for £2.19 million.
Fine & Rare is where that standing was built — single-vintage bottlings reaching back to 1926. The Reach, distilled in 1940 and released in 2022 at eighty-one years old, was the oldest whisky the distillery had ever bottled until Time : Space followed at eighty-four. The presentation sets have become collections in their own right: the Red Collection's six ultra-aged bottles made £756,400 together in 2020, the Lalique Six Pillars decanters $600,000 in 2022.
The older stock, laid down long before single malt commanded serious prices, is the foundation of the releases that now define the top of the category. A Macallan distilled in 1926 and bottled sixty years later, one of twelve carrying a label by the artist Valerio Adami, sold at Sotheby's in 2023 for £2.19 million.
Fine & Rare is where that standing was built — single-vintage bottlings reaching back to 1926. The Reach, distilled in 1940 and released in 2022 at eighty-one years old, was the oldest whisky the distillery had ever bottled until Time : Space followed at eighty-four. The presentation sets have become collections in their own right: the Red Collection's six ultra-aged bottles made £756,400 together in 2020, the Lalique Six Pillars decanters $600,000 in 2022.
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