Glenfarclas 185th Anniversary

700ml / 46%

Single Malt

$211

An official Glenfarclas, at 46%. A rich orchard sweetness and dark sugar, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Licensed in 1836 and bought by John Grant in 1865, at Ballindalloch. It holds tens of thousands of casks on site, with stock from every year since 1953. This is a deep, sherried Speyside single malt.

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SKU GFC053 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

A Glenfarclas, a distillery bottling, at 46%, 6000 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, the house behind the pioneering 105 cask strength. Its whiskies are bottled at their natural colour, without chill filtration. It was licensed in 1836 under Robert Hay and bought in 1865 by John Grant for 511 pounds. It draws on that deep inventory for the Family Casks, single vintages reaching back to the 1950s.

The spirit was worked unhurried through the stillhouse, for a weighty, nutty spirit the sherry then deepens. An Oloroso sherry cask held it, drawing the rich spirit on over the years. Carrying no age, soft vanillin and dried fruit suggest a fair spell in active oak. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate. The full spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out its darker register.

At 46% it is smooth and rich. A rich orchard sweetness and dark sugar, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The mouthfeel is full and coating, the fruit dark and sweet. The close is rich and dark, fruit over a warm spice. This is a richly sherried Speyside single malt.