Glenfarclas The Family Casks 40 Years Old 1973

The Family Casks (Release A13)

700ml / 52.4%

Single Malt

$4546

A 40 year old Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 52.4%. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Run by six generations of the Grant family since 1865, one of Scotch’s last independents. It holds tens of thousands of casks on site, with stock from every year since 1953. This is Glenfarclas’s deep, fruity Speyside style.

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SKU GFC138 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

Glenfarclas from the distillery, a 40 year old, from 1973, cask 6056, at 52.4%, 139 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, one of the last great family owned distilleries in Scotch. It draws on that deep inventory for the Family Casks, single vintages reaching back to the 1950s. It was licensed in 1836 under Robert Hay and bought in 1865 by John Grant for 511 pounds.

Drawn from a thick, heavy wash, shaping a rich Speyside body with real weight. It was fully matured in an Oloroso sherry cask, the wood deep in the rich spirit. Ethereal and fragile, the decades draw it to a resinous, waxy depth of dried fruit, treacle and old oak. The cool, slow dunnage ageing loses little to evaporation, the spirit holding its depth. The full spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out its darker register. The full bodied spirit takes active sherry wood well, carrying its dark sugars through the years.

Bottled at a cask strength 52.4%, it is deep and concentrated. A deep, dark sweetness, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Fig, honey and a dark chocolate fill the middle. The finish is long, rich and spiced. This is a full bodied Speyside single malt of real richness.