The Macallan Classic Cut - 2025 Edition
The ninth addition to our annual Classic Cut series, this high strength release demonstrates our ongoing quest to seek out the extraordinary.
The Macallan Classic Cut - 2025 Edition has been bottled at 50.6% and features notes of grapefruit, panna cotta and apple.
A multisensory myriad of dynamic and evolving flavours are unveiled with the addition of water, revealing new depths of character. This whisky is anything but classic.
Classic Cut - 2025 Edition
Grapefruit. Panna Cotta. Apple.
Matured in sherry seasoned European and American oak, and ex-Bourbon casks, this exceptional single malt delivers a rich, layered profile. It has been bottled at the whisky maker’s preferred strength of 50.6% to reveal a unique character and flavour.
The Experience
Colour
Cut to Discover
At full strength, the whisky reveals a prominence of velvety milk chocolate and orange zest. When water is added, reducing it to 40%, bright notes of grapefruit and creamy vanilla panna cotta emerge.
A further cut of water, reducing the strength to 20%, unveils a fresh, warming finish of apple and lemon zest.
Marks of Distinction
FROM THE CASK
Every single malt from The Macallan reveals the unrivalled commitment to the mastery of wood and spirit for which The Macallan has been known since it was established in 1824. It is an expression of our enduring desire to go beyond the ordinary, to seek out the extraordinary and create peerless single malts.
Our reputation for the extraordinary is shaped by our exceptional oak casks, for which The Macallan is renowned. At the heart of this lies our sherry seasoned European and American oak casks, which bring richness and depth as they meet the robust new make spirit from our Curiously Small Stills. Sourced, crafted and seasoned in Jerez, each cask is crafted with precision and care to the exacting standards of our Whisky Mastery Team.
Once filled, the maturing spirit remains undisturbed in the same casks for the necessary number of years it needs to be worthy of its destined The Macallan expression. It is the oak that makes the greatest contribution to the quality, natural colour and distinctive aromas and flavours at the heart of this single malt whisky.