Glenfarclas 12 Year Old Bot.1960s Securo Cap
75cl / 52%
A very rare bottling of Glenfarclas 12 years old in a bottle that used the securo cap closure from the 1960s.
This was bottled by Gordon & MacPhail at Grant Bonding which was a joint partnership between Glenfarclas and G&M.
This bottle came from a parcel of stock that was imported by Esquin Imports San Francisco around the mid-1960s and was bottled at high strength.
New livery! Colour: full amber. Nose: very different, for it starts on soy sauce, cooked meat (game) and black toffee. It’s not that it’s any more complex, but it surely is more special. Lots of sweet’n’sour notes (Chinese cooking). Develops on tropical fruits (guava). Really a great whisky, not too far from the stupendous and long discontinued old Macallan 100 proof. It seems to have become to Speyside what the Laphroaig 10 yo C/S is to Islay. Gets quite winey after a few minutes. Mouth: wow, again, it’s much better than the older version. Less spirity, more balanced… Glenfarclas 12 Year Old Bot.1960s Securo Cap
Always some caramel and dried orange, but with more depth, and more fruits (apricot, quince, mirabelle…) and much more sherry, it seems. The finish is long but less burning and more balanced. A great whisky – no wonder many aficionados do pour a few centilitres of this one in any so-so new bottle of whisky to improve it dramatically. Yes, try that, it works! Anyway, 88 points for this Bang-for-your-buck whisky.
Glenfarclas 105 is one of the first whiskies I ever reviewed on this blog (see here). Around 2008 it used to be one of my favourite daily drams. It never hurts to revisit this kind of stuff, batches are replaced often anyway (although Glenfarclas doesn’t advertise them so it’s impossible to recognize them). Glenfarclas 12 Year Old Bot.1960s Securo Cap
As you know Glenfarclas 105 is their popular high strength expression, it refers to 5 over proof which is 60% alcohol, and it’s supposedly around 8 years old. Since +/- 2010 it comes in an updated (wider) bottle and packaging.
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