Glenfarclas The Family Casks 18 Years Old 2006

The Family Casks (Release S24)

700ml / 61.4%

Single Malt

$327

An official Glenfarclas, an 18 year old, 2006, at 61.4%. A rich orchard sweetness and dark sugar, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The house behind the 105, one of the first cask strength malts, from 1968. Licensed in 1836 and bought by John Grant in 1865, at Ballindalloch. This is a Speyside single malt of real standing.

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SKU GFC455 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

An 18 year old Glenfarclas, a distillery bottling, from 2006, cask 3418, at 61.4%, 599 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, one of the last great family owned distilleries in Scotch. It holds some sixty eight thousand casks on site in dunnage warehouses, with stock from every year since 1953.

Taken gently through wash and spirit stills, giving a deep, full bodied Speyside spirit. It was fully matured in an Oloroso sherry cask, the wood deep in the rich spirit. Into oxidative maturity, slow air builds ripe esters and a darker chocolate, fig and date depth. Years in oak deepen the spirit to a darker gold, the body growing rounder and more resinous with time. The full spirit deepens with time, the cask drawing out its darker register. 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 a natural 61.4% it is full and rich. Orange, raisin and a treacle edge, 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 a deep, sherried Speyside single malt.