New releases - The Macallan Amber, Sienna & Ruby

One of the most protracted and eagerly anticipated launches in recent whisky history has reached its conclusion with the full release of The 1824 Series by the iconic Speyside distillery of The Macallan. The first bottling in the series - The Macallan Gold - was launched last Autumn and now the three other expressions have joined it. They are named Amber, Sienna and Ruby.

New release - Macallan Gold

Today sees the official launch of Macallan Gold, the eagerly anticipated first release in the new 1824 Series from the famous Speyside distillery.  The 1824 Series is an innovative new range of single malts that has been developed by Bob Dalgarno, the Master Whisky Maker at Macallan, and focuses on colour.  The ideas are to let the wood of the cask, and the colour that it imparts into the whisky, do the talking and that certain colours in whisky relate to certain flavour characteristics.

The Macallan 1824 Series

The famous Macallan distillery have announced the imminent launch of a brand new range of whiskies - The Macallan 1824 Series (pictured, above).  There have been rumours about this new range circulating around the whisky blogosphere for the last two months or so, and it seems to have been causing quite a stir amongst our fellow bloggers and whisky fans alike.  Macallan is one of the biggest selling single malt whisky brands in the world and comfortably sits in third place for sales, so any new releases are going to be viewed with plenty of interest.  But this new range is one with a bit of a difference and I was delighted to be invited to the media launch at the distillery last week.