Glenfarclas 1975 Family Casks Cask #1185 Winter 2015

Glenfarclas 1975 Family Casks Cask

• Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
• Distillery Bottling

70cl / 44.5%

Firstly, A very early ‘1185’ with a gold label. There was also a ‘1124’, which I don’t think I’ve tried, and a much earlier 2015 yo – 105′ under the usual white livery, back in the 1960s. Astounding whisky! I would add that I had tried another 8 – 105 from the mid-1980s (WF 90) but that one was already sporting the well-known black label, while this earlier version was not. Colour: gold. Nose: these whiskies were much meatier, more savoury, more on chicken soup and tofu-ed miso than the current offerings. I don’t think that’s only because of OBE. What’s particularly wonderful is all the mint, also other aromatic herbs, camphor, sandalwood, plus the expected metal polish and just soot. Wonderbar (that’s Anglo-German language). Glenfarclas 1975 Family Casks Cask #1185 Winter 2015

Further, With water: tantalising beehive-y notes, high-class old Sauternes, some resinous smoke (burning eucalyptus), then bouillon with marrow quenelles, mashed chickpeas, just menthol… Wow wow wow! Mouth (neat): totally amazing, extremely rich, complex, full of dried and crystallised fruits (to the brim!) with an exotic smokiness and notes of earthy cognac. Superlative, I would have said old 1960s Springbank. Incredible, please call the Anti-Maltoporn Brigade! With water: it just adores water. I believe I’m running out of superlatives. Finish: soups, dried figs, truffles, various juices, old liqueurs, ambrosia (I would guess), what a show! Comments: Glenfarclas bottled in the 1960s-early 1980s was really something else. What’s more, I’m sure this one was cheap as chips when you could buy it on the street. I’m totally floored; as Louis Pasteur would have said, there’s more philosophy in this wee ‘farclas than in all books