Macallan Harmony Fine Cacao | Midnight Whiskey

The Macallan Harmony Collection Fine Cacao Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky — 2022 Travel Retail Release, 88 Proof

Back Label
Fine Cacao back label showing Harmony I travel retail designation and 44% ABV.

Price

$899.95

✔ 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: 80.0

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Vault-to-door shipping

Adult signature (21+) at delivery

40%

ABV

May 2022

Released

70cl

Format

Speyside

Region

Polly Logan

Whisky Maker

None

Flavouring

The Macallan Harmony Collection Fine Cacao is the travel-retail half of Harmony I, bottled at 40% ABV from a combination of European and American oak casks. It premiered at The Macallan's airport boutiques in May 2022 and reached global travel retail that June. Same collaboration as Rich Cacao — Whisky Maker Polly Logan with pastry chef Jordi Roca — pitched at a lighter chocolate profile.

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The Elemental Distinction

40% ABV, against 44% for the domestic Rich Cacao.

Travel Exclusive. Sold through airport boutiques and global travel retail, not domestic shelves.

Premiered May 2022 at The Macallan airport boutiques; global travel retail from June.

European and American oak casks combined, for a medium rather than indulgent chocolate profile.

Bottled at 70cl — the European measure, not the US 750ml.

A 100% recyclable and biodegradable box with recycled labels.

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Cask & Craft

Collection Fine Cacao

Duty-free and travel retail operate as a distinct commercial channel with their own buyers, their own pricing and their own duty treatment, and producers build for it accordingly. Exclusive expressions are the norm rather than the exception: a parallel bottling lets a distillery serve the channel without discounting its domestic range, and the lower strengths common in travel retail reflect both duty calculations in some markets and a brief aimed at a broader, less specialist buyer. Fine Cacao follows that pattern precisely — 40% against the domestic 44%, released a few months later, in the 70cl European measure. What it does not do is cut corners on the whisky: it draws on the same European and American oak combination and the same Roca collaboration that produced its domestic twin.

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Cask & Packaging

What the release is built on

Casks

A combination of European and American

Oak

Market

Travel Exclusive Edition

Not a domestic release

Packaging

100% recyclable and biodegradable box

Recycled labels

Collaboration

Jordi Roca, El Celler de Can Roca and

Casa Cacao, Girona

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Sensory Profile & Strategy

Distiller notes & position

Sensory Profile

The lighter half of the pair: Macallan positioned Fine Cacao as elegant and medium in chocolate character where Rich Cacao is indulgent and rounded. Same brief, two intensities, deliberately.
Where the character comes from: A combination of European and American oak. No flavouring is possible in Scotch single malt, so the cacao note is cask work here as it is on the domestic release.
What is documented: 40% ABV, European and American oak, a May 2022 travel-retail premiere, and the Roca collaboration shared with Rich Cacao.

Strategic Position

Travel retail is a genuinely separate market, not a shelf in an airport. It has its own distribution, its own pricing, its own regulatory treatment and its own volume economics, and distilleries build parallel expressions for it that never appear domestically. Fine Cacao is one of those — a lower-strength counterpart released a few months after its domestic twin, into a channel most buyers only pass through. For anyone assembling the Harmony Collection outside a duty-free hall, the travel-retail halves are the difficult six. It sits with the travel-retail bottlings in our vault, alongside the 44% domestic cacao release.

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Collector Note & Index

Vault provenance

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Collector Note

Two things make this harder to buy well than its domestic twin. It was never sold outside travel retail, so ordinary retail scarcity reasoning does not apply — availability depends on which airport halls stocked it and what came home in luggage, which is why supply outside Europe and Asia is thin and uneven. And it is a 70cl bottle, the European measure, not the 750ml a US buyer expects; that is normal for travel retail and it is worth knowing before comparing prices per bottle against domestic releases. On the naming, be careful. Rich Cacao and Fine Cacao are different whiskies at different strengths from the same collaboration, and listings shorten both to "Harmony Cacao" often enough that the full name is the only safe thing to buy on. The coffee release that followed repeated the same domestic and travel-retail split.

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How to Taste It

Neat, and do not add water. At 40% this is the lowest-strength release in the Harmony Collection and there is no headroom — dilution takes it somewhere thin rather than opening it up, which is the opposite of how the barrel-strength bottles in most collections behave. Serve it slightly cool rather than cold if the room is warm. It is also the one to pour for anyone who found the 44% domestic release heavy going: the whole point of the pairing was two intensities of one idea, and this is the restrained end of it by design rather than by compromise.

Collector IndexMW VAULT

Distillery: The Macallan, Craigellachie, Moray
Class: Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Collection: The Harmony Collection
Released: May 2022 at The Macallan airport boutiques
ABV: 40%
Market: Travel Exclusive Edition
Whisky Maker: Polly Logan

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Technical Specifications

Specification	Detail
Class	Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Collection	The Harmony Collection — Harmony I, travel-retail edition
Released	May 2022 at The Macallan airport boutiques; global travel retail from June 2022
ABV	40%
Market	Travel Exclusive Edition — not a domestic release
Casks	A combination of European and American oak
Collaboration	Jordi Roca, El Celler de Can Roca and Casa Cacao, Girona
Whisky Maker	Polly Logan
Format	70cl
Flavouring	None. Scotch single malt may contain only water, malted barley and yeast.
Packaging	100% recyclable and biodegradable box; recycled labels
Region	Speyside
Distillery	The Macallan, Craigellachie, Moray
Brand owner	Edrington

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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 is the difference between Macallan Rich Cacao and Fine Cacao?

Strength and market. Both come from the same Harmony I collaboration between Whisky Maker Polly Logan and pastry chef Jordi Roca. Rich Cacao was the domestic release at 44% ABV with what Macallan describes as indulgent chocolate notes; Fine Cacao is the travel-retail exclusive at 40% ABV, drawn from a combination of European and American oak, with a lighter medium chocolate profile.

Where can you buy Macallan Harmony Collection Fine Cacao?

It was released only through travel retail. Fine Cacao premiered at The Macallan's airport boutiques in May 2022 and reached global travel retail in June 2022, and it was never sold as a domestic release. Bottles appearing outside that channel have generally come home from duty-free rather than from ordinary retail distribution.

What size is the Fine Cacao bottle?

70cl, the European measure, rather than the 750ml standard US format. That is typical of travel-retail bottlings and worth checking before comparing prices against domestically released whiskies, which in the United States will usually be 750ml.

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