Spirits

A Pantone Color Institute collaboration with a deep, cask-forward profile to match its signature purple hue. American and European oak, 48.5% ABV.

Nose: vanilla, milk chocolate, orange blossom, candied ginger. Palate: vanilla custard, dark chocolate, citrus zest, raisin, toasted almond. Finish: chocolate and spiced oak, medium-long, balanced.

The Edition series was Macallan's six-year run of annual limited releases, each built around a singular creative theme, each produced once, each retired when the casks ran dry. They are not made anymore. They will not be made again. Bottles still surfacing in 2026 routinely trade above original retail.

Vintage: 1992

Region: Speyside

Bottled Year: 2022

Bottles: 198

A family-run independent bottler born in Los Angeles in 2019, The Perfect Fifth is dedicated to supplying malt enthusiasts in the USA with unparalleled fine Scotch from outstanding Scottish distilleries. Each of our whiskies is bottled from a single cask, hand-selected for quality to be bottled under The Perfect Fifth brand. We believe that whisky bottling is an art form that combines both quality spirit and arresting design.

This 'teaspooned' whisky is for all intents and purposes mostly the beloved 1989 Balvenie with that tiny amount of Glenlivet added in order to declassify the cask

From the bottler: 

Distillers can be very protective of their hard-won malts, especially those who carry the most prestigious of names. From time to time, they must relinquish the hold on their casks, when one is sold to an independent bottler, for instance. Before spirit changes hands, the distiller - green-eyed and flush with passion - will take a single teaspoon of another distillery’s single malt, and add it to the spirit in the cask. Just a dash it takes, but that whisky can no longer bear the name its distillery of birth.

The distillery of origin is a darling of Dufftown, where nine stout stills produce a spirit rich in fruit and notably honeyed. Her sister, nestled close by in the Moray countryside, is where the ‘teaspoon’ of malt originated. Though nameless, together they are a powerful and stunning pair.

Independent bottlings of spirit distilled at the Balvenie distillery are rarely found on the market, and though the distillery is notable for having experimented with different cask types, this ex-bourbon cask allows the distillery character to sing finely and clearly, while accentuating the sweet vanilla and stone fruit character.

The exceptionally smooth, clean and fruity taste of Aultmore whisky can be traced to the Foggie Moss. The water source filters through bracken, gorse and heather purifying the water to the profit of Aultmore’s refined character. The Aultmore 21 Years Old is the pinnacle of the range with decades in refill hogsheads giving plenty of development without overpowering the classic Aultmore characters. This celebrates the herbal characters alongside stone fruit and gentle spice.

The Aultmore 21yr is like the ultimate fruit crumble, made of apples, pears and Cantaloupe melon, drenched in a creamy vanilla custard, and garnished with a sprig of Rosemary. It is a wonderfully complex dram, that you can slowly sip and savour as it evolves in the glass. ABV 46%.