Glenfarclas 1981-2017 | The Family Cask 1606Speyside Single Malt Scotch WhiskyDistillery Bottling 70cl 54. 6% A 1981 Glenfarclas single malt whisky from the Winter 2017 release of the distillery's Family Cask series. Glenfarclas 1981 Cask 1606 was a 4th Fill Sherry Butt bottled at the end of 2017 so the whisky is a 35 year old or (more likely) 36 year old and yielded an impressive 523 bottles at an equally impressive 54. 6%. These long aged refill cask Glenfarclas whiskies often get overlooked

making the whisky 47 or 48 years old

coastal smokiness

and sherried Caol Ila of this age is always a delight for fans of the smoky sherry genre - this will be a textbook example

white fruits

This Bruichladdich was bottled for the Islay whisky festival 2006

Supposedly because Auchroisk was deemed too difficult a name for the average punter to pronounce

Proof Another beautiful old bottle of Glenrothes-Glenlivet 8-year-old from the 1960s

0%A 1994 Glenfarclas bottled in 2014 for the distilleries Family Cask series at around 20 years of age

Nose: Burning heather smoke flows over green pears and ripe apricots

Berry Bros & Rudd 4/5 Quart / 86 Proof

although the entire affair was rather embarrassing for Macallan

fresh sherry character