Macallan Harmony Smooth Arabica

The Macallan Harmony Collection Smooth Arabica Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky — 2022 Travel Retail Release, 80 Proof

Price

$499.95

✔ Authenticated by the house — seal, fill level, and label inspected before release
✔ Documented provenance on every bottle
✔ Climate-safe, collector-grade packaging

Age: NAS (Limited Edition) | Region: Speyside, Scotland | Proof: 80

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Vault-to-door shipping

Adult signature (21+) at delivery

40%

ABV

Nov 2022

Released

70cl

Format

Speyside

Region

Steven Bremner

Whisky Maker

None

Flavouring

The Macallan Harmony Collection Inspired by Smooth Arabica is the travel-retail half of Harmony II, bottled at 40% ABV from a combination of sherry-seasoned European and American oak casks. Released in November 2022 and crafted by Whisky Maker Steven Bremner, it was built around gentle spice and soft Americano character — the longer, softer cup to its domestic counterpart's espresso.

Nº 01

The Elemental Distinction

40% ABV. Travel Exclusive Edition, released November 2022.

Sherry-seasoned European and American oak — Macallan's signature cask programme.

Built around Americano character, where the domestic edition was built around espresso.

Crafted by Whisky Maker Steven Bremner, who made both halves of Harmony II.

The same Ethiopian Arabica brief as its counterpart, read at a different intensity.

70cl, the European travel-retail measure.

Nº 02

Cask & Craft

Smooth Arabica

Macallan's cask programme is the part of the distillery that explains most of what is in the glass, and both Harmony II releases run on it. The house does not simply buy used sherry butts. It commissions oak — European from Spain, American from the United States — has the wood seasoned and coopered to its own specification in Jerez, and then has those casks filled with sherry for a period specifically to season them before they are emptied, shipped to Speyside and filled with spirit. That is a supply chain measured in years before a drop of whisky enters, and it is why sherry-seasoned appears on the specification rather than ex-sherry. For a release asked to deliver coffee character without any coffee in it, that cask influence is the entire mechanism available.

Nº 03

Cask & Packaging

What the release is built on

Casks

Sherry-seasoned European and American

Oak

Market

Travel Exclusive Edition

Not a domestic release

Whisky Maker

Steven Bremner

Collection

The Harmony Collection

Harmony II, travel-retail edition

Nº 04

Sensory Profile & Strategy

Distiller notes & position

Sensory Profile

Nose and palate: Gentle spice over soft Americano character, drawn from sherry-seasoned European and American oak.
Against the domestic edition: Four percentage points lower, and aimed at a different point in the same reference: a long, milder cup rather than a short concentrated one.
What is documented: 40% ABV, a November 2022 travel-retail release, sherry-seasoned European and American oak, and Steven Bremner as whisky maker.

Strategic Position

The Harmony II pairing is more precise than a strong version and a mild one. Macallan named the two after two ways of preparing the same bean — espresso for the domestic release, Americano for this — and an Americano is an espresso with water through it. The whiskies follow the same logic: 44% against 40%, one concentrated and one longer. Whether that was designed as a joke or as a brief, it is the most coherent naming in the collection, and it makes the pair worth owning together in a way the other five pairings are not. It sits among the sherry-seasoned Macallan bottlings we stock, beside the 44% domestic edition.

Nº 05

Collector Note & Index

Vault provenance

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Collector Note

Of the six travel-retail halves in this collection, this is the one most often substituted for its domestic twin in listings, because the names are near-identical and the difference is four percentage points buried in the small print. Check the ABV before anything else: 40% is this one, 44% is the domestic edition. The second check is format — 70cl here, as with all the travel-retail Harmony bottles, against the 750ml a US buyer expects on a domestically distributed whisky. Neither is a defect; both matter when comparing prices. Worth remembering too that a complete Harmony Collection is twelve bottles rather than six, and the travel-retail halves are the difficult ones. The meadow release that followed moved the series away from the cup entirely.

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How to Taste It

Pair it with the cup it was named for. Macallan built the domestic edition to sit beside an espresso and this one alongside something longer, so an Americano or a milk-based coffee gives you the comparison the brief was actually written against — and the softer coffee will not bury a 40% whisky the way a short black can. Neat otherwise, and no water: at the collection's lowest strength alongside Fine Cacao there is nothing to open up and something to lose. If you have the domestic edition, pour them together and read them as two preparations rather than two grades.

Collector IndexMW VAULT

Distillery: The Macallan, Craigellachie, Moray
Class: Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Collection: The Harmony Collection
Released: November 2022
ABV: 40%
Market: Travel Exclusive Edition
Whisky Maker: Steven Bremner

Nº 06

Technical Specifications

Specification	Detail
Class	Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Collection	The Harmony Collection — Harmony II, travel-retail edition
Released	November 2022
ABV	40%
Market	Travel Exclusive Edition — not a domestic release
Casks	Sherry-seasoned European and American oak
Whisky Maker	Steven Bremner
Inspiration	The Ethiopian Arabica bean, read as Americano rather than espresso
Format	70cl
Flavouring	None. Scotch single malt may contain only water, malted barley and yeast.
Region	Speyside
Distillery	The Macallan, Craigellachie, Moray
Brand owner	Edrington

Nº 07

Records & Assurance

Authentication & Vault Preservation

Every bottle sold through Midnight Whiskey is sourced as an authentic, sealed product and inspected before it ships. Orders are packed with padded, glass-rated handling and require an adult signature (21+) on delivery; we do not ship to anyone unable to verify legal drinking age. For our full sourcing and handling protocols, see our editorial and authentication standards.

Frequently Asked Questions

What ABV is Macallan Harmony Smooth Arabica?

40% ABV. It is the travel-retail half of Harmony II and sits four percentage points below the domestic edition, which was bottled at 44%. Both were crafted by Whisky Maker Steven Bremner from sherry-seasoned European and American oak.

How does it differ from the domestic Arabica release?

By strength, market and reference point. This is a Travel Exclusive Edition at 40% ABV released in November 2022, built around gentle spice and soft Americano character. The domestic edition is 44% and was built around espresso. Both draw on the same Ethiopian Arabica inspiration and the same sherry-seasoned European and American oak, so the pairing represents two preparations of one idea rather than two grades of it.

What does sherry-seasoned mean on a Macallan label?

That the cask was made to Macallan's specification and filled with sherry purely to season the wood before being emptied and filled with spirit, rather than being a second-hand cask bought after a sherry producer had finished with it. The oak is commissioned, coopered and seasoned in Jerez before shipping to Speyside, a process measured in years before any whisky goes in.

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