Glenfarclas 1986 The Family Casks
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenfarclas |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1986 |
| Bottled Year | 2007 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | Refill Sherry Puncheon |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 56.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
big, beefy and earthy sherry. Lots of black truffle, dried mushrooms, beef jerky and various dark fruit compotes. Fig jam, strawberry wine and walnut oils. You can see how this more brutal style of distillate works so well with a big hefty sherry cask like this. They compliment each other rather than going to war. Gets increasingly leathery with pipe tobacco and black pepper. With water: some beautiful notes of rancio and wax along with orange peel and soft wood spices
restaurant Palate
really quite massive, spicy and polished. Lots of boot polish, hessian cloth, blood orange, mulling spices and lanolin. Mushroom powder, bitter chocolate and cocktail bitters. Full on and very excellent. With water: rosewater, blossom, Turkish delight, treacle pudding, mint creams. Top notch stuff!
timer Finish
long, extremely earthy, peppery and weighty with cured meats, olive oil and hints of old herbal liqueurs