Glenfarclas 1979 Family Cask Release IV

Glenfarclas 15 Year Old

This winter I made my first Christmas cake. I followed a Nigel Slater recipe, and was wowed by the smell of it cooking in the oven. It's better than anything else I've ever baked - all those flavours and ingredients mixing together, and the aromas just fill the house. It smells better than bread cooking. Now, the Glenfarclas 15 - my first from...

Score 88/100

Glenfarclas 43 Year Old 1968/2011 Pedro Domecq Manzanilla Sherry Cask 697

Luc Timmermans, Belgian ex-Malt Maniac and notorious Glenfarclas collector himself, selected this 1968 cask in person. Domecq Manzanilla is a very delicate Fino sherry, made from the Palomino grapes, which grows on the Spanish coast. The whisky is then solera-matured in bodegas in Sanlucar de Barramede, where the climate is less hot and more humid...

Score 91/100

Glenfarclas 12 Year Old

My "stats" are starting to tell me that Glenfarclas is the way to go, if I want to taste good sherry flavored whiskies. Usually I haven't liked much of the ones that have a big sherry influence (mainly they've been from the Macallan range before Glenfarclas). Glenfarclas came out swinging like Rocky Balboa in the first movie of the Rocky...

Score 83/100

Glenfarclas 40 Year Old

Another one for the wishlist, while Farclas is superbly priced, i dont think (as a student) ill be affording it for a while. O well, its motivation i suppose * Nose: a very dense liquid, not easy to pick things out at first, needs some time in the glass, old leather armchairs, walnuts, plenty of wood and chocolate raisins, some coffee burnt sugar...

Score 94/100