Glenfarclas Cask Strength Premium Edition 13 Years Old 2000

Cask Strength Premium Edition

700ml / 58.5%

Single Malt

$232

An official Glenfarclas, a 13 year old, 2000, at 58.5%. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Drawn from the largest, direct fired stills in Speyside, for a nutty depth. Its water rises from the granite of Ben Rinnes, above Ballindalloch. This is a rich Speyside malt of dried fruit and nut.

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SKU GFC387 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

A distillery release of Glenfarclas, a 13 year old, from 2000, at 58.5%, 6000 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a deep, dark Speyside malt of dried fruit, nut and spice. It launched the 105 in 1968, one of the first cask strength single malts sold to the public.

The spirit was distilled to a rich, generous cut, for the rich, sherried make Glenfarclas is known for. It was matured in an Oloroso sherry cask, the wood working deep into the malt. In integration coconut and vanilla knit with the malt, the orchard notes deepening to sultana, date and chocolate. 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. Active wood drives the maturation, the cask deep in the malt. Years in oak deepen the spirit to a darker gold, the body growing rounder and more resinous with time.

Bottled at a cask strength 58.5%, it is deep and concentrated. Orange, raisin and a treacle edge, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A baked apple and a warm cinnamon lift the middle. The finish is rounded, dark and spiced. This is a dark, fruity Speyside single malt.