Glenfarclas Cask Strength Premium Edition 11 Years Old 2004

Cask Strength Premium Edition

700ml / 59.8%

Single Malt

$226

An 11 year old Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 59.8%. A deep, dark malt over a full, rich body, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The house behind the 105, one of the first cask strength malts, from 1968. Run by six generations of the Grant family since 1865, one of Scotch’s last independents. This is a deep, sherried Speyside single malt.

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SKU GFC436 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

An 11 year old Glenfarclas, a distillery bottling, from 2004, at 59.8%, 6000 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a deep, dark Speyside malt of dried fruit, nut and spice. Its spirit is matured almost wholly in sherry butts brought up from Jerez. Its six stills are the largest in Speyside and among the very few still fired directly, now by gas.

The spirit was run slowly off the spirit still, shaping a rich Speyside body with real weight. Maturation came in an Oloroso sherry cask, layered over the full Glenfarclas make. By the integrating teens the raw notes fade and esters build, the rich spirit growing rounder and darker. The cool, slow dunnage ageing loses little to evaporation, the spirit holding its depth. Maturation runs slow and even in the dunnage warehouses at Ballindalloch. Active wood drives the maturation, the cask deep in the malt. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Speyside body.

At 59.8%, undiluted, it is dark and full. Raisin, chocolate and a warm spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A baked apple and a warm cinnamon lift the middle. The finish runs long, full and warming. This is a deep, sherried Speyside single malt.