The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask Strength Limited Edition ESB-10935/02 2020 750 ml
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About this bottle
The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask 2020/ESB-10935/02 is a single malt Scotch drawn from one European oak, sherry-seasoned butt and bottled at cask strength. Whisky maker Stephen Bremner selected cask 10935/02 as part of the 2020 Exceptional Single Cask series, a limited annual release from Speyside yielding just a few hundred bottles. Years in sherry-seasoned European oak push the whisky deep and dark: dried fig, orange peel, and clove on the nose, with dark chocolate and a resinous oak spine running through the palate that stays sweet without turning heavy. Because it's single cask, no other bottle drinks quite like this one, and full cask strength means the drinker decides how much water to add. It's built for collectors and serious sherry-bomb drinkers rather than casual sippers.
How to drink The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask
Pour it neat into a tulip-shaped glass and give it ten minutes before judging it — cask strength whisky needs time to open. Add a few drops of water if the alcohol feels sharp; it won't dull the sherry and fig, just soften the edges. This is a whisky for slow, undistracted sipping, not for a mixed drink.
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ScotchEuropean oak sherry-seasoned butt · Speyside
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Questions about this bottle
How should this be served?
Neat, in a tulip-shaped glass, given about ten minutes to open before you taste it. A few drops of water will soften the alcohol heat at cask strength without diluting the sherry and fig character.
What makes a single cask release different from The Macallan's standard range?
It's bottled from one specific sherry-seasoned European oak butt rather than blended across casks, so the exact profile — in this case deep dried fig, orange peel, and clove — is unique to this one release and won't repeat.
Why does The Macallan lean so heavily on sherry casks?
The distillery runs its own cask-sourcing program in Spain, seasoning European oak with sherry specifically for Macallan maturation, which is why its whiskies consistently show that dark, dried-fruit character.
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