Glenfarclas 1979 38 Years The Family Casks 4th Fill Hogshead Cask No. 8797 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky Cask Strength 47.9% Vol. - one of only 220 bottles of an outstanding Glenfarclas Highland Single Malt!
A rare and fantastic vintage 1979 38 year old Glenfarclas Highland single malt Scotch whisky from the Glenfarclas The Family Casks Winter 2017 single cask series and special bottling from a selected 4th fill hogshead. For this, Glenfarclas filled a selected hogshead with cask no. 8797 in 1979, the new make was matured in the cask for 38 years and was bottled in a limited edition of only 220 bottles on 2nd November 2017 without the addition of colourants and chill-filtration at cask strength 47.9% vol. as a limited winter release W17.
The world-famous and unique whiskies from the Glenfarclas Family Casks series contains selected single cask bottlings 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 the most select casks were chosen to represent the best of its year.
The exclusive and unique vintage 1979 38 years Glenfarclas 4th Fill Hogshead Cask No. 8797 Highland single malt Scotch whisky shows intense aromas of tropical fruits, mango, pineapple, passion fruit, honey, spices, pepper, notes of oak and fine vanilla in the nose, the taste is complex and oily with ripe fruits, lemon peel, various honey flavours, pepper, white chocolate, amazingly pleasant oak and herbal spice, the finish is very long and warm with spices, pear, honey and intense woody notes - an absolutely magnificent and perfectly aged Glenfarclas Highland single malt Scotch whisky with immense power which is unrivalled today and was rated 91 points by Serge on Whiskyfun - http://www.whiskyfun.com - Comments: the 1979s already possess something of a serious reputation, further grist to that particular mill in this instance I think. I love the deftness of it, extremely quaffable stuff.
An outstanding and exquisite vintage 1979 38 years Glenfarclas Highland single malt Scotch whisky matured in the selected fourth-fill hogshead from the Glenfarclas The Family Casks limited single cask edition Winter W17 series bottled in the year 2017 in extraordinary quality with a deep amber colour and exclusive 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: 1979
- Age: 38 years old
- Year bottled: 2nd November 2017
- Cask Wood Type: 4th Fill Hogshead
- Cask No.: 8797
- Alcohol ABV% 47.9 - Cask Strength
- Bottling Series: Vintage 1979 The Family Casks Limited 2017 Single Cask Edition - Release Winter W17
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / not chill filtered
- Packaging original wooden boxed with booklet
- Producer/Importer: J. and G. Grant, Glenfarclas Distillery, Rechlerich, Ballindalloch, AB37 9BD, Banffshire, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, one of only 220 bottles - very rare collector s whisky!
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