Colin Rizza

The whisky is crafted from a combination of European and American oak casks and refill casks. The bottle is presented in a pack featuring a watercolour painting depicting the distillery by local artist Colin Rizza, who is also a long-standing worker at The Macallan. His family have strong ties to The Macallan, having worked there for over three decades, and both he and his son still work at the distillery.

Colin Rizza said: “Our family is one of many that has long been intertwined with The Macallan. We feel a deep sense of belonging to The Macallan Estate and it’s an honour to have my artwork featured on the packaging of the first edition in the Home Collection.”

Rizza, who acquired his first set of oil paints when he was eight years old, has had a lifelong interest in art and regularly produces watercolour landscapes, oil portraits and coloured ink caricatures. His talent has long been admired by The Macallan community and over the years he has been commissioned to design various artworks, including caricatures of The Macallan partners, the Roca brothers of El Celler de Can Roca.

For his latest collaboration with The Macallan, he spent many hours studying the distillery and its beautiful surroundings. He took dozens of photographs, distilling it down to its simplest form and exploring it through the medium of watercolour.