Glenfarclas Golden G 46 Years Old 1954

Golden G

700ml / 43%

Single Malt

$4307

An official Glenfarclas, a 46 year old, 1954, at 43%. A rich orchard sweetness and dark sugar. It holds tens of thousands of casks on site, with stock from every year since 1953. Its water rises from the granite of Ben Rinnes, above Ballindalloch. Matured almost wholly in Oloroso sherry casks from Jerez. This is a rich Speyside malt of dried fruit and nut.

In stock

Available

SKU GFC058 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

This official Glenfarclas, a 46 year old, from 1954, at 43%, 1193 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, the house behind the pioneering 105 cask strength. Its whiskies are bottled at their natural colour, without chill filtration. It draws on that deep inventory for the Family Casks, single vintages reaching back to the 1950s.

It was taken gently through wash and spirit stills, the direct fired stills lending a nutty depth. Maturation came in ex-Bourbon wood, the oak gentle behind the spirit. Ethereal and fragile, the decades draw it to a resinous, waxy depth of dried fruit, treacle and old oak. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and a soft coconut over the fruit. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Speyside body. Maturation runs slow and even in the dunnage warehouses at Ballindalloch. The full bodied spirit takes active sherry wood well, carrying its dark sugars through the years.

Bottled at 43%, it is rounded and full. A deep, dark sweetness, lifted by a sweet oak. A dark chocolate and a soft oak give it weight. The finish is rounded, dark and spiced. This is a Speyside single malt of real standing.