Glenfarclas 175th Anniversary

700ml / 43%

Single Malt

$292

An official Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 43%. Rich and full, with raisin, fig and a bittersweet chocolate. A rich, deep Speyside single malt of dried fruit, nut and spice. Bottled at natural colour, without chill filtration. Drawn from the largest, direct fired stills in Speyside, for a nutty depth. This is Glenfarclas’s deep, fruity Speyside style.

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SKU GFC051 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 43%, 6000 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, one of the last great family owned distilleries in Scotch. Its spirit is matured almost wholly in sherry butts brought up from Jerez. Its whiskies are bottled at their natural colour, without chill filtration. Its six stills are the largest in Speyside and among the very few still fired directly, now by gas.

The spirit was taken gently through wash and spirit stills, building a deep malt of dried fruit and dark sugar. Ex-Bourbon casks held it, the American oak lending vanilla and a light honey. With no age statement, vanillin reads as vanilla and oak lactones as coconut over the rich, fruity spirit. The cool, slow dunnage ageing loses little to evaporation, the spirit holding its depth. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate.

At 43% it is rich, fruity and deep. Raisin, chocolate and a warm spice, lifted by a sweet oak. The body is full and rich, the fruit deep and dark. A long finish carries raisin, chocolate and a treacle. This is the family sherry malt of Ballindalloch.