A technical look at Macallan

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Momentum, Concerto Optic? why still use concerto and optic and not move to sisha or diablo or laureate

What separates Momentum from other standard barley varieties? Barley variety between the summer and winter?

What is the expected spirit yeat from momentum compared to other barley varieties?

Peated Barley

Chill filtration process: temperature? duration? 1-micron filter?

HEN, Process Control, Environmental concerns, Sherry seasoning, warehouse, supply chain of casks, QC of casks


Macallan Distillery

Barley variety:

Exclusive right to use momentum barley that is grown in farms in speyside.
Most of the barley used in production now is diablo, as they offer a better yield, and consistency for their core range.
Sherry seasoning minimum 12 months, David Baird, 2 years someone else
Warehouse

Casks of Macallan are aged in racked and dunnage warehouses, but they are never palletised.
Supply chain of casks
What bodegas do you work with? Different bodegas for a different style of cask?
QC of casks, whisky maker smell the cask, not just complain with supply chain but find out why, troubleshoot together
Coopers arent paid by casks, but given a target and paid a salary, no rush with working on speed, no issue with rejects for high-risk high issue caskss
Edington database system checks on each and every cask with a number from Jerez and that number can be used to track what spirit (macallan or Glenrothes) goes into it
Edringron cask tracking, lifecycle tracking bar code. Empty cask stock management, internal cask management, and location of cask
Addiewell cooperage
4 cooperages and 3 bodegas
Wood traceability to be integrated for the internal Edrington system, easier to promote supply circularity
To help control illegal logging

In-depth understanding of oak bar
Q robor more frequent in Galicia west spain. Q robor and q petraea is often hybridised
Q robor more frequent in central sw france,
Q Petraea more frequent in central and north eastern france
Ensuring that the felljng of trees is insignificant conpared to the growth rate
Challenges with the supplychain: brexit, politics, port strikes, covid
Specification/QC of sherry wine differs depending on awo or eo wood