Glenfarclas 1962 Family Cask III Sherry Hogshead #2647

Glenfarclas 12 Year Old

Glenfarclas is one of my all-time favorite distilleries. They have the ability to infuse their whiskies with a wonderful richness and complexity, yet they are always balanced and smooth. They can take a multitude of component flavours and make them work so harmoniously that it’s almost absurd. With the 15 year old and the 105 being two of my...

Score 87/100

Glenfarclas 25 Year Old

N: sherry, sophisticated array of sugars and the malt. The sense strain to assign metaphors and similes. P: A bombastic yet sophisticated barrage of caramel, oak, vanilla, mint. The palate changes in a chimerical way, unfolding, teasing, growing, fading, changing, fading. F: Extremely long, complex, delicious, and with a zest that stings the...

Score 89/100

Glenfarclas 25 Year Old bottled 1970s

My Glenfarclas 25 Year Old is also an older version, bottled in the early 90s. So this must be a distillate of the late 60s. On the back of the label is the name of the – presumably – long gone Belgian importer. This is – presumably – a very good whisky. Again the nose swoons you with lovely sherry aromas like stewed and dark fruits, roasted...

Score 85/100

Glenfarclas '105'

Glenfarclas 105 is cask strength and I have to say that drinking it without water was a bad experience. I always test my cask strengths without water first. Every now and then there's cask strength that tastes good without water, like for me, Big Peat's cask strength. But Glenfarclas 105 tasted horrible. After some help from my sherry whisky...

Score 77/100