I've seen Macallan 12 Sherry selling for $150 in NYC, but it generally goes for $85 😱 My alternatives would be: Glenmorangie Lasanta 12, Bunnahabhain 12, Glendronach 12.
@@whiskywhereabouts The scary thing is that there are blind-with-wealth people buying it at that price. As for $150, if I could find it, Tamdhu Cask Strength comes to mind, as does Bunnahabhain 12 Cask Strength, with some money to spare.
May I propose as an alternative: Arbelour 12 Lagavulin 11 Nick Offerman Edition ( Carribean Cask) Balvenie 12 Doublewood Glenfiddich 14 Bourbon Barrel Reserve Ardbeg An Oa There are epic expressions out there equal to or cheaper than Macallan. I encourage everyone to experiment.
The Tamdhu 12 is an excellent (and better IMO) alternative for sure to the Macallan 12, but the Tamdhu 12 IS chill filtered my friend, the 15 and up is where they don't chill filter.
Good catch. There's so much contradictory information on this whisky out there! I don't have a bottle on hand to check for mist, but as it doesn't state it's NCF on the label, I assume I was misled, and it is, in fact, chill-filtered.
I’d throw the Compass Box Spice Tree out there, just to mix it up with a blended malt. $59 or so on the regular for 46% and no chill filtering, and many of the nice oak spices that you can get in the Mac 12.
Would also highly recommend the Glenfarclas 105. Very underrated in my opinion and a good £10 cheaper than the Macallan 12 here in the UK. In a cask strength blind tasting I did recently it came out tops against 4 other drams, which included Glendronach cask strength and Aberlour A'bunadh.
There was two different Glenfarclas 105 in the past. The normal one is a NAS Whisky, but there was also one, which was 10 years old for the same price. The age was written on the backside of the bottle.
I would honestly get monkey shoulder or smokey monkey at $45 in my market and a decent sherried Irish like Sexton and get two good bottles for the price of one Macallan 12.
It truly boggles the mind that Macallan is asking these prices. Especially in a few years when their stock gets expanded by the new product coming out of the massive new distillery. If anything, Macallan should get very affordable in a few years concidering how much of it will be out there! I say SHOULD, because we all know their prices will never go down.
As an added comment, the only Macallan I EVER buy is Independent bottlings like those from Signarory. Much more affordable and Cask Strength / Single Cask.
Just to keep you updated my local total wine and more liquor store sells this exact bottle for $67. So I think you were right. Just grabbed 2 bottles of it this week.
Like so many other things now… Macallan 12 ain’t what it used to be. On my shelf right now are the Glenallachie, Glendronach, and Bunnahabhain. All were $60-$65 and all are way better than Macallan 12. The Glenallachie is an amazing dark fruit bomb. My favorite dram right now for sure
Macallan 18 is still a good malt but everything in their range that is cheaper is rubbish and everything that is more expensive is stupidly overpriced (as is the 18 itself, for that matter). The last great affordable whisky they released was the 1824 Sienna about 8 years ago. I try Macallan occasionally at shows and tastings, but it never impresses me any more. Their day has passed.
