Macallan Decades Collection

A very rare gift pack from Macallan called the Vintage Travel Collection, which contains two of the four bottles for their Decades Collection - Twenties & Thirties. The Decades Collection bottles depict the classic style of The Macallan from the 1920's to 1950's, with each release featuring label & box artwork featuring classic modes of transport from each decade. To re-create the style of Macallan in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, their Master Distiller sampled bottles of The Macallan from that decade and matched their aroma and flavour with more recent distillations taken from the casks maturing in the warehouses. Macallan 1920s During the 1920s, most Macallan produced was sold to whisky blenders as a "top dressing" single malt for their blended whiskies. The few remaining casks continued to mature their contents for longer, resulting in a whisky that was slightly drier and less toffee sweet than modern-day Macallan. Macallan 1930s During the 1930s, with coal in short supply as a result of increasing industrial activity, Macallan reverted to drying barley using peat fires. This, combined with the scarcity of oak sherry casks due to the Spanish civil war, resulted in a whisky that was both peatier and less spicy than modern day Macallan.