Glenfarclas The Family Casks 23 Years Old 2000

The Family Casks (Release S23)

700ml / 52.2%

Single Malt

$467

A 23 year old Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 52.2%. A deep, dark malt over a full, rich body, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Drawn from the largest, direct fired stills in Speyside, for a nutty depth. It holds tens of thousands of casks on site, with stock from every year since 1953. This is a richly sherried Speyside single malt.

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SKU GFC399 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

A distillery release of Glenfarclas, a 23 year old, from 2000, cask 6226, at 52.2%, 268 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, the house behind the pioneering 105 cask strength. Its slow, cool dunnage maturation loses very little to the angels each year. It has been run by six generations of the Grant family, one of Scotch whisky's last truly independent houses.

It was drawn from a thick, heavy wash, giving a deep, full bodied Speyside spirit. Maturation came in an Oloroso sherry cask, layered over the full Glenfarclas make. In the oxidative, evaporative years the spirit concentrates to dried fruit, dark chocolate and a waxy, resinous depth. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Speyside body. The full spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out its darker register.

Bottled at a cask strength 52.2%, 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 rounded, dark and spiced. This is Glenfarclas's deep, fruity Speyside style.

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Weight

1.6 kg