A wonderful addition to any Macallan collection, the Royal Marriage bottling was released in 1981 to celebrate the wedding of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.

A marriage of casks from 1948 and 1961, the years of the couples' births.

Bottled to celebrate Charles and Diana’s wedding. Colour: amber, slightly paler than the 1974. Nose: obviously older at first nosing, less fruitful and woodier, spicier. Maybe this one wasn’t 100% sherry matured? Lots of vanilla and tea, hints of nutmeg, white pepper… Gets then honeyed and flowery (wild flowers, daisies) before we have quite some eucalyptus and menthol coming through. Quite some quince as well, furniture polish… Top notch again, I guess they had to do something unusual for the occasion. But it’s not ‘Macallan’ as we knew it. Mouth: an obvious old bottle effect at the attack, with both something pleasantly metallic and ‘tropically’ fruity (mangos). Even more different now, with something mineral, flinty enhancing the relative sweetness (bergamot sweets). And then we have the eucalyptus and camphor, the pepper, the nutmeg, the cloves… Maybe the middle is slightly weak in fact, the finish being not too long either but even drier than the 1974’s, on lots of tea and again these notes of mangos. Looses points at the finish but it’s still an excellent, princely dram.

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