Glenfarclas Easter Edition 10 Years Old 2016

A distillery release of Glenfarclas, a 10 year old, from 2016, at 46%, a festival cask. 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.

Taken gently through wash and spirit stills, shaping a rich Speyside body with real weight. It was matured in an Oloroso sherry cask, the wood working deep into the malt. Through integration spirit and wood marry, vanillin rounding out as esters lend riper orchard fruit and a chocolate depth. The full bodied spirit takes active sherry wood well, carrying its dark sugars through the years. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Speyside body. Long ageing turns the fresh notes towards date, prune and a dark, bittersweet chocolate.

At 46% it is rich, fruity and deep. A rich, sherried sweetness, 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 full bodied Speyside single malt of real richness.