Macallan Horizon

The first release from The Macallan's partnership with Bentley Motors, and the most ambitious design the distillery has attempted: a horizontal vessel built around a 180-degree twist, set against every convention of what a whisky bottle looks like. 700 bottles worldwide. Six is the organising number — six first-fill European oak butts, six materials drawn from both houses (whisky, wood, copper, aluminium, leather and glass), the Six Pillars behind them, and a bottling strength chosen as a nod to the same. It carries no age statement, and deliberately so: the casks were chosen on character rather than years.

The Macallan's tasting notes: dried fruit and spice on the nose and palate, balanced with oak and leather; a long, complex finish of rich oak.