Glenfarclas Historic Reserve N°1 42 Years Old 1959

Historic Reserve N°1

700ml / 46%

Single Malt

$6474

A 42 year old Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 46%. Deep and dark, all baked apple, honey and a chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Matured almost wholly in Oloroso sherry casks from Jerez. Its Family Casks draw single vintages from a deep, old inventory. This is a rich Speyside malt of dried fruit and nut.

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SKU GFC071 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

A distillery release of Glenfarclas, a 42 year old, from 1959, cask 3232-3235, at 46%, 240 bottles in all. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt, one of the last great family owned distilleries in Scotch. 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.

It was distilled to a rich, generous cut, building a deep malt of dried fruit and dark sugar. An Oloroso sherry cask held it, drawing the rich spirit on over the years. In its ethereal years the malt turns waxy and oxidative, faded esters and a whisper of sotolon over dark fruit. Active wood drives the maturation, the cask deep in the malt. Years in oak deepen the spirit to a darker gold, the body growing rounder and more resinous with time. Maturation runs slow and even in the dunnage warehouses at Ballindalloch.

Reduced to 46%, it is mellow and sweet. Baked apple, honey and a dark chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. It is full and fruity, the spirit carrying the cask. A long finish carries raisin, chocolate and a treacle. This is a dark, fruity Speyside single malt.