Glenfarclas Single Cask #3639 + 6394 14 Years Old 2000 (Oloroso)

700ml / 52.1%

Single Malt

$229

A 14 year old Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 52.1%, a festival bottling. Orange, raisin and a treacle edge, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Licensed in 1836 and bought by John Grant in 1865, at Ballindalloch. Run by six generations of the Grant family since 1865, one of Scotch’s last independents. This is Glenfarclas’s deep, fruity Speyside style.

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SKU GFC388 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

A distillery release of Glenfarclas, a 14 year old, from 2000, cask 3639 + 6394, at 52.1%, released for a whisky festival. Glenfarclas is a Speyside single malt matured almost wholly in sherry casks from Jerez. Its water rises from the granite of Ben Rinnes, above the distillery at Ballindalloch. It launched the 105 in 1968, one of the first cask strength single malts sold to the public.

The spirit was worked unhurried through the stillhouse, shaping a rich Speyside body with real weight. It was matured in an Oloroso sherry cask, the wood working deep into the malt. By the integrating teens the raw notes fade and esters build, the rich spirit growing rounder and darker. Years in oak deepen the spirit to a darker gold, the body growing rounder and more resinous with time. The wood frames the spirit without ever stripping the full Speyside body.

Bottled at a cask strength 52.1%, it is deep and concentrated. A deep, dark sweetness, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dark chocolate and a soft oak give it weight. The close is rich and dark, fruit over a warm spice. This is a Speyside single malt of real standing.

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Weight

1.6 kg