Glenfarclas The Family Casks
8.6

Glenfarclas The Family Casks

Release X, 1953

ABV 49.6%

This might be old, but it has not lost any of its quality.

Rob Allanson

Specification

The Family Casks

Glenfarclas

Brand

Release X, 1953

Expression

Single Malt

Type

59

Age (Years)

49.6%

ABV

Speyside

Region/Country

Standard (Distillery or blended)

Bottling Type

Tasting Notes

Rob Allanson

Taster

Nose: Shy and delicate, spearmint, drying sweet tobacco note emerges. Raspberry jam, hay brier, coconut and vanilla smoothies, Harrogate toffee, honey spiced with orange.

Palate: Dense with a leafy mulch quality, we are back in autumn. Slow burning spice notes, a light peat note. Fruit and citrus lurking here

Finish: Quite buttery at first then the oak begins to grip and dry.

Comment: This might be old, but it has not lost any of its quality.

Score: 8.5

Neil Ridley

Taster

Nose: Crème caramel, floral wax, raspberry coulis, a pitch fork full of wet hay, runny golden honey and a little spray of white flowers.

Palate: Aromatic vermouth, fat, punchy. Zesty Sicilian lemons then into distinctly dry almost burnt oaky notes, toasted hazelnuts and peat.

Finish: The signs of age show when the oak takes hold of the tongue, lingering notes veer towards the slippery slope of dryness.

Comment: Delightfully balanced

Score: 8.7

8.6
Overall Score

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