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Macallan TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask and Mastery
Glass Notes

Glass Notes: Macallan's yellow case is out. Why is the red one selling for half? 黃盒上市，紅盒點解跌咗一半？

Macallan TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask launched at £1,100, finished in the first Valdespino sherry...
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Neat rows of dark oak whisky casks stacked beneath a wooden warehouse roof, a single dram glass resting on a barrel head — One distillery, its own casks
Producer Guide

Yamazaki and why Japanese distilleries do not swap casks

Here is a problem that has nothing to do with taste and everything to do...
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A short stack of mahjong tiles beside a single oak cask bung and stave, one filled whisky glass standing alone — A single cask is one barrel
Producer Guide

The Mahjong Project and what a single cask really is

A barrel of whisky is a tradeable object, and it moves around more than most...
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Two whisky glasses of near identical deep amber liquid, one against a dark sherry stained cask stave, the other against plain oak — Dark colour is not older whisky
Producer Guide

Macallan, sherry casks and why colour misleads

Two glasses on the same table. One is pale, almost like white wine. The other...
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A chunk of heather and sandstone beside one whisky glass on a weathered wooden ledge, grey sea light behind — Island whisky is not all peat
Producer Guide

Highland Park and why island whisky is not all peat

Ask ten people what island whisky tastes like and nine will describe the same thing:...
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A whisky glass filled dark and undiluted, a small glass jug of water and an eyedropper beside it, faint ripples spreading — Add water to cask strength
Serving & Storage

Cask strength whisky and the water you should be adding

You buy a cask strength bottle because 58 per cent sounds like more whisky for...
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Rough stones, a clump of dark peat, dried sea kelp and loose grain husks in separate small piles beside a whisky glass — A region is geography not taste
Buying Guide

Whisky regions describe geography, not flavour

Shelves get organised by region because region is the easiest thing to organise by. Speyside...
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An opened whisky bottle beside a small humidity gauge, condensation fogging a nearby windowpane — Humidity fades open whisky fast
Hong Kong

Storing whisky in Hong Kong humidity, open and unopened

You opened a bottle around Christmas. It is August now, a third is left, and...
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Two plain whisky bottles of the same shape side by side, one sealed in red wax and one in green, a cask sample vial between them — The bottler is not the distiller
Buying Guide

Independent bottlings and why one distillery tastes different

Under the distillery name, in smaller type, sits a company nobody has heard of. Then...
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An unopened whisky bottle wrapped in plain brown paper with loose ribbon, set apart from a row of identical plain boxes — A known name is not a safe gift
Buying Guide

Choosing a whisky as a gift when recognition is the trap

You have twenty minutes and you need a bottle. Dinner at someone's flat, a wedding,...
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Three whisky glasses of differing amber hues lined up, oak staves behind them stained by sherry, port and Sauternes — Cask finishes add wood, not age
Buying Guide

Sherry, port and Sauternes cask finishes: what the wood adds

The label says finished in oloroso sherry casks. The one beside it says port pipe...
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A single whisky dram beside a weathered oak cask end, grain worn and faded, curls of sawdust on a dark wooden bench — Age names the youngest cask
Buying Guide

An age statement is a fact about the youngest cask

An 18 next to a distillery name is a fact. It is also close to...
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Macallan TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask and Mastery
Glass Notes
Glass Notes: Macallan's yellow case is out. Why is the red one selling for half? 黃盒上市，紅盒點解跌咗一半？
Neat rows of dark oak whisky casks stacked beneath a wooden warehouse roof, a single dram glass resting on a barrel head — One distillery, its own casks
Producer Guide
Yamazaki and why Japanese distilleries do not swap casks
Fossil flecked grey limestone fragments with tiny oyster shell imprints scattered on dark soil beside a pale tinted glass of white wine — Kimmeridgian rock shapes Chablis
Burgundy
William Fevre, Chablis and what Kimmeridgian rock does