Glenfarclas '105' 8 Year Old Bottled 1990s

Glenfarclas 15 Year Old

The Glenfarclas 15. No color added, bottled at 46% instead of 43% like most of their standards because apparently that's the way the founder enjoyed it. Bottle is 90% full and has been opened for about 2 weeks to allow for some air time. This is currently not commercially availible in the US. Nose: Where do I begin? Plums, baked cherries,...

Score 96/100

Glenfarclas 1971 Family Cask for Silver Seal #148

from a purchased sample Nose: Cinnamon, Christmas cake spice, cherries, toffee, raw nuts. There is a real waxy and almost smoky quality. Raisins, prunes in rum. Some vanilla and ginger. I added a drop of water to see what happened, and it released more fudge and chocolate, and turned things a bit more black-brown than red-yellow. More wood as...

Score 87/100

Glenfarclas 15 Year Old

With 15 year old sherry cask whiskies it's all about the sherry and power. On the nose it's sherry with a hint of wet wood and perhaps a bit of varnish. On its own you have more wood, sherry of course, I've been told that Turkish Delight is there but although I can sense sweetness this eludes me. Sweet and hot nuts like you get in pubs (or used...

Score 75/100

Glenfarclas 12 Year Old (Personally Selected for The Lorne Scots)

This was a birthday gift from over a year ago, and is the last heel left in the bottle (so it's been open for a very long time). I believe this may be a bottling specific to Ontario, a 12 year old commemorating the Lorne Scots regiment, which was created in 1936 by amalgamating the 36th Peel Battalion with the 20th Halton Battalion, infantry...

Score 91/100