Glenfarclas The Family Casks 19 Years Old 2005

The Family Casks (Release S24)

700ml / 59.3%

Single Malt

$374

A 19 year old Glenfarclas from the distillery, at 59.3%. A deep, dark malt over a full, rich body, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. 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. This is a rich Speyside malt of dried fruit and nut.

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SKU GFC451 Categories Glenfarclas, Scottish Whisky, Speyside, Whiskey

Description

A 19 year old Glenfarclas, a distillery bottling, from 2005, cask 2462, at 59.3%, 618 bottles in all. Glenfarclas, the glen of green grass, is a richly sherried Speyside single malt. Direct firing chars the wash a little, lending the rich, nutty depth Glenfarclas is known for. It draws on that deep inventory for the Family Casks, single vintages reaching back to the 1950s. 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, shaping a rich Speyside body with real weight. It was fully matured in an Oloroso sherry cask, the wood deep in the rich spirit. At oxidative maturity aldehydes lend a nutty edge while ellagitannins draw a drying, structured grip across the fruit. The full bodied spirit takes active sherry wood well, carrying its dark sugars through the years.

At a hearty 59.3% it carries real weight. Raisin, chocolate and a warm spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dark chocolate and a soft oak give it weight. Dried fruit, spice and a soft oak see it out. This is a Speyside single malt of real standing.