Glenfarclas 1990 The Family Casks
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Glenfarclas |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1990 |
| Bottled Year | 2019 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | Refill Sherry Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
deep mahogany
air Nose
pure espresso, brioche, various red fruit jams and preserves, salted caramel and bitter chocolate, and then plenty salty broth and soy sauce. A leathery cloak of rancio over everything - an impression of an very old dry Madeira. The chocolatey aspect merges with the coffee note making a very syrupy mocha type of aroma. The whole thing feels dense, sticky, dark and syrupy. Pure mint essence, strawberry scented pipe tobacco and crushed cloves. With water: develops rather typically towards a breadier, more autolytic profile. Trail mix, toasted pumpkin seeds, grapefruit peel, dried lavender, shilling ales and underneath it all a remnant miso-flecked, slightly saline sherry quality
restaurant Palate
liquid incense! Pure black pepper, old ointments, mint choc chip, eucalyptus resin, tea tree oil, more cloves, ginger, nutmeg, a little hot paprika and things like game meats and biltong. More slightly salty, nervous notes, walnut oil, expensive pu-erh tea, crystalised fruits and some Moroccan spice notes. Evolves over time in a more typical direction like dates, prune juice and fig paste. With water: leafier, earthier, more tobacco, raisins, camphor, rancio, black pepper, coal dust and cough medicine
timer Finish
long, leathery, peppery, chocolatey and full of bitter coffee, teas, herbal extracts and various citrus piths
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