I recruited my Fab! Friend Melissa and her Ultra Fab! cousin Eddie to go to the Macallan tasting at the Back Bay Event Center. Fortunately for once all of our names were on the list and we were given a comment card and a drink coin.
Fab! Friends and cousins Eddie and Melissa
For those who don't know, which I did not either until like a week ago Macallan is a scotch whiskey. Now y'all I don't do the whole dark liquor thing, so this was my first experience with a fine whiskey - I mean I don't think Jack Daniels counts :)
Our group was escorted downstairs of the center were it had been transformed into a classy bar area. There were tv's all over the room displaying images of of the Macallan brand and sweeping images of Scottish landscapes.
We took our seats at our candle lit table complete with a silver carafe and ice bucket. Our sever (dressed in black complete with a black ear piece) said he would be there to help us with whatever we needed. Our coin was to be utilized for our first drink and could help ourselves to the hors d' oeuvres of crackers and cheese. They also had passed hors d' ourves of jumbo shrimp and brazen beef on skewers.
Seating in the presentation room
Our host started his presentation about this fine single malt whiskey on this super cool touch screen which takes PowerPoint into the next century. During the presentation we learned a lot about about whiskey and how the word literally means "the water of life" as at the time it was created whiskey was safer to drink than water. Whiskey and Scotch are actually the same thing. People use Scotch as the word for whiskey's that come from Scotland as opposed to other countries (kinda like champagne comes from the city of the same name in France, Preseco is from Italy...but they are both sparkling wines) that their whiskey is aged in Spanish oak casts which is they spend 25 million dollars on the wood alone each year. And we even learned a Scottish toast pronounced "slange!"
The ultra cool presentation touch screen
Throughout the presentation whenever the Macallan symbol came on the presentation we got passed a round of tastings of the 10, 15, 17, 21 and 30 variety of whiskeys name for the number of years they spend in the oak barrels before bottling. This is some expensive stuff (around $90 a bottle) - I am in no way prepared to be a full time Macallan whiskey drinker. Plus it's like 45% alcohol!
Fab! Friend Melissa and BostonFab!
The presented was really excellent and at the end of the night we got a nice gift bag with a hat, a glass and a little booklet that described the whiskey's we tasted.
The presentation was absolutely fab! and we had a wonderful time. Definite A.
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