The Macallan Red Collection 40 & 60 Years Old with Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru 2009

Two distilleries, two countries, one idea of time. This lot pairs The Macallan Red Collection 40 Years Old with the 60 Years Old — the two expressions that frame the Scottish maison’s most extreme ageing work — and a Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru 2009, among the rarest wines of Burgundy.

The Red Collection was conceived as a celebration of the oldest casks held in Macallan’s warehouses, bottled in vanishingly small quantities and positioned squarely at the great international collectors. The 40 Years Old, distilled in the early 1980s and matured for four decades in selected oak, is the collection’s most solid point of entry; the 60 Years Old, distilled in the 1950s and bottled after six decades, sits in a category that leaves the idea of a bottle behind and enters that of a museum object. Availability on the secondary market is structurally low, and appearances of the 60 are episodic.

Domaine Leroy is a living myth of Burgundy, and the Musigny Grand Cru 2009 is one of its most complete expressions: biodynamic farming, microscopic yields, a Pinot Noir of crystalline purity. Critical recognition is unanimous — Wine Advocate 96/100, Jancis Robinson 18.5/20, Vinous 98/100 — and the capacity to evolve over decades is precisely what the collector of a Burgundy grand cru is acquiring. A lot that balances an entry into ultra-aged whisky with an absolute masterpiece of the Côte de Nuits.