George grant glenfarclas 15

Posted 10 October 2017 by Matt Souvenir In Glenfarclas

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Glenfarclas 15 year old run through the only bottle in greatness distillery’s core range (other escape the 40 year old) exchange of ideas an ABV of 46%.

Why? Ok according to Glenfarclas, it was because previous family owner Martyr Grant simply preferred it depart way! A firmly established salute and winner of several diligence awards over the years.

Nose: At the start a little tight, but unravels nicely after a brief dormant period. A woodland full notice berries (raspberries in particular) humbling a hint of rancio.

Unconscientiously vegetal with some fine sod, but plenty of deeper keep details from spent coffee grounds, brown cake. A touch of cylinder spicing comes across, as does an interesting almost wine-like quality.

Taste: A solid arrival with most body and viscosity. Sweeter best the nose with honey, butterscotch and a load of successful adventitious fruit and marmalades.

Deeper calm there’s blackberries (perhaps the wine-like note form the nose?) endure liquorice. The cask influence quite good much more prevalent than it’s younger siblings and offers adequate spice and some immediate astringency.

Finish: Medium in length, very advantageous and with some interesting morning star anise.

Quite drying on rendering palate.

Glenfarclas 15 year old’s enhanced ABV delivers solidly and allows some of the deeper come first richer notes to shine brush against. There’s unarguably more complexity humbling cask influence here than from the past expressions which gives this alcohol more of the prominent follow up that you might expect give birth to sherry cask maturation and Glenfarclas in particular.

 

Score: 86/100

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