Macallan 1950 | Atkinson Baldwin & Co Ltd Handwritten Label

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Bottled by: Atkinson Baldwin & Co Ltd 75cl / 43%

An old edition of Macallan 1950 released around 1980 or 1981 at 43%. Known today as the Handwritten Label series, this 1950 Macallan was one of several 30-something-year-old Macallan vintage editions bottled under license at the turn of the 1980s, in this case for Atkinson, Baldwin & Co.

Other near-identical Macallan 1950 Handwritten Label bottlings were released around the same time by Gordon & MacPhail, Matthew Clark and the Italian distributor Rinaldi Import, among others. These special editions for UK and international partners were some of the very last prestige vintage Macallans before the distillery took all their official bottlings in-house and launched The Macallan Anniversary Malts in 1983.

This Macallan 1950 Handwritten label is a near perfectly preserved example of this famous bottling. A delicious, rancio-heavy, waxy and tropical fruity affair, this dram walks a perfect tightrope between the more earthy, coalhearth-like character of the 1950s and the resinous, peaty, fruit-rich 1940s style of Macallan. Brilliant whisky that Macallan built their reputation on.

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