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    The Macallan fine and rare whisky bottle
    The Macallan Fine and Rare Collection 1948 Cask 609 Box
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    The Macallan Fine & Rare 1948

    AGE OF WHISKY 53 Years Old

    YEAR BOTTLED 2002

    Cask Type Hogshead

    CASK No. 609

    TOTAL OUTTURN 124 Bottle Equivalents

    TINT 25

    AVAILABILITY 750ml, 700ml, 50ml

    THE YEAR THAT WAS

    1948

    The National Health Service Acts are enacted in the UK, the Summer Olympics begin in London, while in New York, Babe Ruth, the American baseball player, dies aged 53. This year also saw the invention of the tape recorder and transistor as new technology moved mainstream, while in art, Jackson Pollock painted his famous composition Number 1 bolstering abstract expressionism.

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    Colour

    Rich Oak
    No ENDEAVOUR is in vain; it’s REWARD is in the doing.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

     
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