Glenfarclas 15 Year Single Malt 46%

Glenfarcla's 15 year Single Malt Highland Whisky

Glenfarclas 15 years is aged in sherry casks and bottled at 46%, slightly to the right of its brothers in Glenfarclas' core range series. Which helps to make the taste experience fuller and more concentrated.

Scent: Very delicious notes where brown sugar and dried apricots come together with chocolate cake.
Taste: Delicious full body in a nice balance with dried fruit together with the sweet full sherry and malty notes, where the sherry notes persist in a nice finish with sweetness and the spices.

Glenfarclas means "The Valley of the Green Grass" in Gaelic, and the skilled Scots get the water used in the distillation from a small spring that springs from the beautiful and dramatic Ben Rinnes. The distillery is located at the foot of the heather-covered mountain, where the water springs up from the underlying granite when the winter snow melts. The combination of the very clean, soft water and the completely unique shape of the potstills used by Glenfarclas contributes to the distillery's unique and delicious single malts.

Glenfarclas Distillery:

The distillery has been family owned by the Grant family since 1865 and is one of the few still family owned. John Grant was actually a cattle breeder when he bought Recherlich Farm and Glenfarclas Distillery in 1865 for £511. It is six generations of whiskey that benefits us consumers today. This continuity has allowed Glenfarclas to still use older ways of making whisky. Not because of romance and a longing for history.

As George Grant, sixth generation of the family puts it: “We've lived through 22 recessions. We make the whiskey we can afford to make and never borrow money to make it.” During the 1980s, when the whiskey industry itself was cutting back on production, Glenfarclas' was on the rise. Glenfarclas has larger quantities in stock than most distilleries. An aversion to independent bottlers using the distillery's name on their (rare) offerings has also helped maintain a strong identity for the Glenfarclas brand itself. At Glenfarclas, they also stick to maturing their whiskeys in former sherry casks. It contributes to the whiskey achieving greater fullness, complexity and sweetness. It is no small operation, and today they have 80,000 casks for storage. Since 1989, they have come from Spain, specifically Huelva near Jerez - and they do so almost every month.