Glenfarclas 1984 The Family Casks

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 '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

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 '105'

Aka. The whisky equivalent of Glühwein (that’s mulled wine to all you Anglophones). After owning a few Glenfarclas 105s over the years, I thought it was about time that I bloody well wrote a review about it. As the 105 Cask Strength is one of the more iconic drams, I believe this one needs no introduction. --- Nose: a big bulgy sherry nose is out...

Score 86/100