In late May, The Macallan held its annual M Masters Golf charity event at the Singapore Island Country Club. With the aid of golfers playing for charity, the event turned out to be a success, raising $42,027 for the Breadline Group, who take care of the living needs of the elderly, disabled, and underprivileged in Singapore. It’s admirable that a luxury goods company is giving back something to the less fortunate.
The same event also paid host to the launch of the The Macallan 65 Years Old in Lalique, is the sixth and final piece in the Lalique Six Pillars Collection. The releases in Lalique are all fine and rare malts, some of the rarest available. There isn’t much whisky that can claim to be aged for 65 years. Consider the rarity of distilled whisky that continues to develop flavours for that long, the difficulty in finding the appropriate casks which impart the right flavours, and the logistical problems in storing it for that long in carefully controlled conditions. That’s not even mentioning the share that angels take from every whisky- 2 percent of the maturing spirit in the cask each year simply evaporates; as a result, there simply isn’t a lot of it to go around. The fact that Macallan made a 65 year old whisky is an incredible achievement in itself.
Such rare malts also demand rare vessels. Instead of the usual glass bottles, all the members of the series were housed in exquisitely designed crystal decanters, made by the eponymous French crystal house Lalique. Each release has had a special decanter designed for it- and as you can see in the case of the 65 year old, it’s breathtakingly beautiful.
Only 450 individually numbered decanters with the accompanying contents were ever made, and each is available at the modest price of $35,000 each. I imagine that it’s up to the serious collectors and people of means to enjoy the beautiful amber liquid inside. Good hunting.
Thanks to Fiji Water for the invite!
