Glenfarclas 15yr 2004 The Family Cask #2383
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Distiller:
Glenfarclas
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Bottler:
Glenfarclas
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ABV:
59.5%
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Age:
15 Years
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Intro:
This is a 15 year old entry into Glenfarclas' Family Cask series - single casks of their distillate, bottled at cask strength with no coloring or filtering, and a variety of maturation types. This bottle was matured in a sherry butt, distilled in 2004. Let's dive in.
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Nose:
Rich, pungent. Really apple driven, with some sulfur, honey, toffee and plums. A bit of ethanol, quickly buried under decadent cocoa, pralines, nutty sherry and syrupy currant.
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Taste:
Rich mouth feel - though there is some heat. Apples, pears, almonds, black currant and pepper are most prominent, with some raspberry, cocoa, tobacco and ethanol on the back palate.
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Finish:
Long, powerful but quite hot. While sherry sweetness is present here, a lot is given over to pepper, tobacco and ethanol. Lightly tannic, a bit drying, but not too bitter.
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Overall:
This is really quite something, but I cant help and wonder if they dumped this cask too soon. It has all the right things happening, and a little extra that I don't love - namely the heat, minor lack of rich complexity on the palate and the unbalanced finish. I bet another 5-8 years would turn this from great to bonkers - that's not a bad thing, by the way. It's good, but in the land of Glenfarclas Family Casks, Glenfarclas is competing against themselves, which is never a bad thing.
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Score:
6
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources
