HAWKERS SLOE GIN
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Scotch Single Malt Whisky - Glenfarclas
Still in family hands since it was founded, the Glenfarclas Distillery is one of Speyside's independent whisky producers. The Grant family have been running Glenfarclas since 1860, producing an individual Speyside malt that many whisky enthusiasts number as one of their favourites.
The water source is melt water from the slopes of Ben Rinnes which runs through granite and heather before reaching Glenfarclas (meaning 'the valley of green grass'). With a long history of bottlings stretching back to the early 20th Century, both proprietary and independent, Glenfarclas is keenly collected.
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15 Year Old Glenfarclas Single Malt |
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Bin No |
POL/106 |
Region |
Speyside |
Size |
70cl |
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ABV |
46% |
Bottled by |
Distiller |
Price |
£37.50 |
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Nose: such is the intensity of the red fruit and sugar-rich barley, there is an element of medium ester Jamaican pot still rum to this, a feeling intensified by an orangey-oak influence that seems greater than 15 years. The top-shelf sherry, though, is of a classical type rarely found these days, though common 30 years ago. Taste: succulent and stupendous. Barley sugar shows first then a sherry input that borders on intense but dissipates as the spicy oak digs in. Finish: long, chewy, a tad oily and fades with a wonderful coffee-vanilla combination and a late surge of something bourbony. Balance: Eureka!!! The 15 year old back to how I can remember it in the past. Some of you may have been scared away by some less than impressive recent bottlings. It's safe to come back because now it has been returned to its position as one of Scotland's most sublime malts. The quality of the sherry is astonishing; its interaction with barley is a wondrous joy. 95 points - Jim Murray's 2008 Whisky Bible |
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