Product description
Glenfarclas The Family Casks collection was launched in 2007 and featured whiskies from the finest casks the distillery had in stock, bottled in its natural state.
It consisted of 43 bottles, each containing a different vintage of whisky, distilled between 1952 and 1994. The Family Casks was a unique edition, without parallel, offering a cross-section of the distillery’s 43-year history. The one presented here is a continuation of that ambitious project, part of a new phase of the Family Casks collection – distilled in 1964, it spent about half a century in a sherry butt no. 4730, the contents of which on 23 March 2014 translated into 192 bottles of cask strength whisky (48.3% abv).
Nose: incredibly rich, old sherry, dried herbs, tobacco, wax, furniture polish, forest floor, dried dark fruits, nutmeg, black pepper, oak and a distant hint of smoke.
Taste: perfectly balanced, dark chocolate, raisins, dried plums, roasted almonds, bitter orange jam, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and beautifully woven oak bitterness.
Finish : very long, with notes of dark chocolate, sherry, dried fruit, nutmeg, cinnamon, leather, oak tannins and a touch of tobacco.