Glenfarclas 1953 Sherry Cask 1st Release The Family Casks
Glenfarclas 1953 Sherry Cask 1st Release
70cl / 53.7%
Firstly, The Glenfarclas Family Casks series is a new range of vintage casks from one of Speyside’s best distilleries. All but three of the range (1952, 1979 & 1984) are from first fill or refill sherry casks.
Further, I think this wee baby should do the trick… Colour: amber. Nose: a stodgy, leathery and leafy sherry that’s full of old cigars, walnuts, sultanas, dates and other assorted dark fruits. Wee hints of mint tea, ginger cake, hessian, nougat, dried flowers and bouquet garni simmering in stock. You could also add some fragrant citrus oils, light soy sauce and quite a bit of earthen wine cellar floor. Really quite surprisingly complex. I get the feeling it’s one of those batches that was ‘topped up’ with some older stocks. Mouth: mushrooms, leather, tobacco, raisins, a single violet, mixed dried herbs, verbena, yellow flowers, cola cubes. Glenfarclas 1953 Sherry Cask 1st Release The Family Casks
MEanwhile, Quite a beautiful and elegant wee sherry profile. And surprisingly weighty for 40%. Hints of madeira cake, lemon peel and wormwood. After a while there’s coconut milk as well. Finish: not the longest but nicely peppery and earthy, a tad drying, some deeper earthy tones and a hint of sootiness and wax. Lovely richness of chocolate biscuits in the aftertaste. Comments: Better than I expected and a really perfect way to conclude this slightly overambitious delve into the Glenfarclas warehouses. It’s true that you can spot a Glenfarclas DNA between this and contemporary bottlings of the 10. But, in all honesty, I prefer this one by quite some distance. There’s a richness and a silky elegance to the sherry that is absent from most sherry cask whiskies these days.
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