Glenfarclas Christmas Edition 9 Years Old 2012

Christmas Edition

700ml / 46%

Single Malt

$87

An official Glenfarclas, a 9 year old, 2012, at 46%. Rich and full, with raisin, fig and a bittersweet chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The house behind the 105, one of the first cask strength malts, from 1968. It holds tens of thousands of casks on site, with stock from every year since 1953. This is the family sherry malt of Ballindalloch.

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SKU GFC491 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

Glenfarclas from the distillery, a 9 year old, from 2012, at 46%, 4200 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt drawn from the largest, direct fired stills in Speyside. It holds some sixty eight thousand casks on site in dunnage warehouses, with stock from every year since 1953. Direct firing chars the wash a little, lending the rich, nutty depth Glenfarclas is known for.

The spirit was taken gently through wash and spirit stills, for the rich, sherried make Glenfarclas is known for. Maturation came in an Oloroso sherry cask, layered over the full Glenfarclas make. In these extractive early years the oak gives vanillin as vanilla and lactones as coconut over orchard fruit and a dark sugar. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and a soft coconut over the fruit. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate.

At an approachable 46% it is soft and fruity. Orange, raisin and a treacle edge, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Fig, honey and a dark chocolate fill the middle. It finishes long, full and fruity. This is the family sherry malt of Ballindalloch.