Maison 96 of 100 · Spirits & Gastronomy
The Macallan
The reading
Speyside whisky that priced itself into the same conversation as cognac. The new distillery is an architectural argument. Lalique collaborations turned a bottle into a sculpture without apologizing.
The house
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1824
- Atelier
- Spirits & Gastronomy
- Ownership
- Edrington
- Signature
- Sherry oak / Lalique decanters
- Register note
- Easter Elchies cathedral This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
It is the only house here filed to Edrington. By founding year it is the 10th-oldest of the hundred. This is one of the nine maisons the register files to the United Kingdom — the same number it files to the United States, and the fourth-largest national group in it. Of the nine houses filed under Spirits & Gastronomy, it is the 5th. Its rank puts it in the fourth quarter of the hundred. Spirits & Gastronomy holds nine of the hundred places, the sixth-largest room in the register. It is the only United Kingdom house in this register filed under Spirits & Gastronomy.