Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
This bottle of 40 year old Glenfarclas Single Highland Malt Whisky is part of the ''Scottish Classic'' series. Limited to 600 bottles world wide in celebration of the third millennium.
Glenfarclas “Millennium 40yo’ OB. Bottled 2000. 43%. 70cl.
Colour: Mahogany.
Nose: What strikes first is this very distinctive note that some might describe as sulphuresque but I find it has a real dirty beauty to it, not cloying or intrusive, it’s more like a some very old earthy phenolic qualities surrounded by lots of stewed fruits and sultanas. Very earthy whisky, this was from the era at Glenfarclas when the malt was still peated. Old leaf mulch, forest flora, dried mushrooms, wet earth, damp hessian, dunnage floors, really beautiful and distinctive nose. The sherry is fragrant and profound but not cloying or overpowering in any way.
Palate: Lovely spicy old wood with a few juicy tannins round the sides of the mouth but still beautifully balanced sherry. Lovely old notes of rancio, cough medicine, tobacco leaf, leather, dried meats, sultanas and some curious notes of black olive tapenade and various herbs. Becomes waxy and oily, there are still glimmers of peat, it feels like the phenols have held the whole thing together behind the scenes, I really like this, it’s dangerously drinkable.
Finish: Long, earthy, leafy, phenolic and full of stewed fruits, more sultana notes and reduced characteristics.
