Glenfarclas 1955 Bicentenary of John Grant's Birth 1805-2005
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenfarclas |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1955 |
| Bottled Year | 2005 |
| Age | 50년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 44.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
deep mahogany
air Nose
astonishing and exquisite sherry that incorporates these stunning aromas of wood resins, teas, rancio and herbs, but also manages to add into the mix a generous and remarkable fruitiness that brings freshness even to such a dark, old sherried malt. Mint, pine wood, blood orange, long aged calvados and wonderfully complex impressions of myrtle, heather, strop leather, very old balsamic and aged yellow Chartreuse. A nose of poetic beauty and great detail with just a hint of fragility that keeps everything very finely balanced
restaurant Palate
indeed, balance is the word. A perfect meeting of wood influence, sherry influence and this terrific legacy of fatness and fruit from the Glenfarclas distillate itself. Many dark and crystallised fruits along with mulling spices, bitter chocolate, exotic fruit teas and hints of tar, camphor and old school cough medicines. Such astonishing brightness given the age and ABV, a unique style that only exists in a handful of other very old G&M bottlings - and perhaps one or two other Glenfarclas as well
timer Finish
long, perfectly drying, earthy and darkly fruited. With a brittle mintiness, tea tree oils, verbena and wormwood. The wood is more clearly on top here but it stays within balance and the effect is in fact quite physical on the palate and leaves this lovely mentholated and tingling sensation