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Glenfarclas The Family Cask 28 Year Old, First Fill Sherry Butt Cask, Cask #13055, Release W17, 2017, 52.4%
Glenfarclas

Glenfarclas The Family Cask 28 Year Old, First Fill Sherry Butt Cask, Cask #13055, Release W17, 2017, 52.4%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 40
Average Score
Avg 96
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Description

Still in family hands since it was founded, the Glenfarclas Distillery is one of Speyside's independent whisky producers. The Grant family has been running Glenfarclas since 1860, producing an individual Speyside malt that many whisky enthusiasts number as one of their favourites. This is a rare vintage 1989 27 year-old Glenfarclas Single Cask Scotch Whisky from the limited Family Casks Winter 2017 series and a special bottling of a selected 1st fill sherry butt. For this bottling Glenfarclas filled a selected sherry butt with cask no. 13055 in the year 1989, were allowed to mature for more than 27 years in the cask and was bottled in a limited edition of only 581 bottles on 3. November 2017 at cask strength 52.4% vol for the winter-release W17. [4]

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Cask type
Sherry Butt
Bottling
Official Bottling
Peated
Unpeated
Single cask
Yes
Non-chill filtered
Yes
Cask origin
N.A
Cask no.
13055
Batch
Release W17
PPM
N.A
Barley
N.A
Fermentation
N.A
Master distiller (bottling)
N.A
Master distiller (distillation)
N.A
Limited edition
Yes
Bottle count
581
Has box
Yes
Closure
Cork
Presentation
Wooden box
Series highlights
The Family Casks
Historical context
N.A
Special release
Winter 2017 Release
Allocation
N.A
Nose
Big pear, sweet cream, pound cake. Sherry notes, light fig, plum, raspberry, mild cocoa. Tart red cherries covered in Christmas-y, cinnamon and clove spices...dipped in a chocolate fondue. Slightly resinous and musty. Grapey, cognac territory. Red plums, prunes with an underlying anise layer of smoke. Powerful peppermint spice, luscious sherry aroma. Raisins, plums, umeboshi, malt sponge cake. Light brown sugar coating, camphor and eucalyptus. Overripe kumquat. [5, 7, 11, 12, 14]
Palate
Thick, rich, mouthfeel. Sweet, creamy, buttery and doughy. Mild sulfurous, clove and cocoa before sherry fruits. Dark, creamy sherry, strawberry compote, roasted coffee beans, chocolate, dried apricot, rum soaked raisins, and dried orange peel. Dry mouthfeel. Red fruits sweetness, herbal and oak bitterness. Deep notes of ripe berries, dark chocolate, and hints of toasted oak. [5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15]
Finish
Long, wonderfully sweet. Sweet, doughy, lightly fruity. Dry, cinnamon, spicy, and ever so slightly sulphurous. Long and satisfying, well-rounded and mature. Warming with a spicy blanket of tart Welch's (concord) grape juice, finishes with a tantalizing medicinal grape flavored cough syrup note. [5, 7, 9, 11]
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