Glenfarclas 1963 48 Years The Family Casks Release VIII 1st Fill Sherry Hogshead Cask No. 179 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky Cask Strength 50.4% Vol. - one of only 194 bottles of an exceptional Glenfarclas Highland Single Malt!
A very rare and stunning vintage 1963 48 year old Glenfarclas Highland single malt Scotch whisky from the Glenfarclas The Family Casks 2011 single cask series and special bottling from a selected first fill sherry hogshead. For this purpose, Glenfarclas filled a selected sherry hogshead with cask no. 179 in 1963, the new make was matured in the cask for 48 years and was bottled in a limited edition of only 149 bottles on 14th October 2011 without the addition of colourants and chill-filtration at cask strength 50.4% vol. as a limited single cask release VIII 2011.
The world-famous and unique single cask Scotch whiskies from the famous Glenfarclas Family Casks series contains selected single cask whiskies from various vintages, spanning 54 years without gaps since the early 1950s and is an exquisite collection of the best single casks from the old cask cellar of the Glenfarclas distillery. The Glenfarclas Family Casks series was launched in 2006 and for each vintage, only particularly select casks were chosen to be among the best of its year. As Glenfarclas now has almost no casks from the 1960s left in its warehouse and there will therefore be no more supplies of these particularly old and outstanding Scotch whiskies, the vintage 1960s Glenfarclas single cask bottlings are now among the most exclusive examples of whisky history and are now particularly sought-after rarities.
The terrific and unique vintage 1963 48 years Glenfarclas 1st fill sherry hogshead cask no. 179 Highland single malt Scotch whisky shows on the nose with fruits, oranges, plums, old sherry and spices and oak, the flavour is concentrated, intense and oily with fresh fruit, stewed apples, apricots with dark chocolate, vanilla, the finish is long and warm with walnuts, fine sherry sweetness and woody notes - an absolutely oustanding Glenfarclas Highland single malt Scotch whisky with great elegance that is unrivalled today!
An outstanding and exquisite vintage 1963 48 years Glenfarclas Highland single malt Scotch whisky matured in an exclusive 1st fill sherry hogshead from the Glenfarclas The Family Casks limited single cask edition 2011 in exceptional quality with a wonderful reddish-mahogany colour and exclusive Glenfarclas masterpiece for connoisseurs, the discerning whisky collector and lovers of fine old Scotch whiskies!
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Speyside / Location: Bannfshire
- Vintage: 1963
- Age 48 years old
- Year Bottled: 14th October 2011
- Cask Wood Type: 1st Fill Sherry Hogshead
- Cask No.: 179
- Alcohol ABV% 50.4 - Cask Strength
- Bottling Series: Vintage 1963 The Family Casks Limited Single Cask Edition - Release VIII 2011
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / not chill filtered
- Packaging original wooden boxed with booklet and certificate
- Producer/Importer: J. and G. Grant, Glenfarclas Distillery, Rechlerich, Ballindalloch, AB37 9BD, Banffshire, Scotland / DIWISA Distillerie Willisau SA, Menznauerstrasse 23, CH-6130 Willisau
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, one of only 194 bottles - unique old bottling and very rare collector s whisky!
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