The Macallan and Bentley Rolls Out Unique Whisky Bottle
Bentley and Macallan unveiled a new whisky bottle featuring a 180-degree twist. The Macallan Horizon release is made from glass, wood, aluminum, copper, leather, and whisky.
With its unique name, The Macallan Horizon is the first product to emerge from the brand’s collaboration, characterized by Bentley‘s commitment to “craftsmanship, creativity, and innovation.”
Macallan Horizon bottles consist of two parts: a glass vessel containing liquid and a copper and wood sculpture surrounding the glass vessel. The twisting glass vessel is wrapped with an aluminum ribbon that resembles the aluminum sculptural on Bentley cars.
The Amazing Macallan Horizon Whisky Bottle
Notably, the vessel is made from glass and aluminum and is designed to be twisted from the wood and copper sculpture. This sculpture uses recycled copper from the original stills at the Macallan Distillery, and most of the sculpture is crafted from a cask used for maturing the whisky. Only 700 bottles of the $50,000 Macallan Horizon will be made available globally
According to Jaume Ferras, the bottle was created “by using highly skilled traditional glassmaking techniques fused with an extensive understanding of modern manufacturing.”
As Chris Cooke, Bentley’s Head of Design Collaborations, explained, the glass vessel and spinning copper and wood sculpture resemble an exploding cask. “Artisanal craftspeople were engaged to create new techniques and processes,” Bentley said.
“We needed to conduct rigorous testing to ensure that the closure was exactly how we needed it to be to accommodate our most ambitious product design yet,” says Ferras, Macallan’s Creative Director.
“We wanted to incorporate a design, which gave a sense of motion,” he continued. “The twist itself directly relates to this idea of onward motion, but importantly for us it also means that the vessel and the display sculpture actually interact with one another as the vessel must rotate as it enters its resting position, fusing them as one entity.”