A wonderfully sherried 15 year old dram from Glenfarclas, boasting oodles of dried fruit notes. It’s bottled at 46% ABV simply because this was the strength that George Grant’s grandfather preferred it at. Happily, this also results in the Speysider boasting a big, juicy, Christmas cake profile. A fabulously complex Scotch while also being easily drinkable.
Intense, powerful sherry. Cream sherry, certainly – Pedro Ximenez? almost… a touch of peppermint? An almost rancio quality to this. Smells older than 15.
Raisins, more sherry, orange peel, walnuts, dates.
Incredibly long, complex, more of the walnuts again.
Water draws out sweetness. This is Christmas cake, not whisky. Simply astonishing.
I bought a sulfur tainted bottle of the 15 year old from mom early 2013. So it would of been the late 2012 bottling that has this issue.
not great but ok, would i buy another bottle; no
How old are the reviews complaining about this?
bought a bottle from MoM a Cpl weeks ago and this whisky has its good points but its just got too much of a sulphurous nose and taste for my liking and I wont be buying it again. IMHO you are much better buying a bottle of glendronach 15yo if like myself you like the fruity flavours
This is good stuff. I'm not even a huge fan of sherry'd whisky, compared to the Glendronach this is more subtle and less overpowering with the sherry. Very Complex. Deep winter fruits; baked apples and rum soaked cherries; all flavours over the underlining of sherry; there are oak and nut notes; whilst the nose doesn't really do the plate and finish justice, I think that is a common quality of sherry'd whisky, and this is a great whisky. More dark chocolate and raisin. The finish is so long, so, so long. A mouth-watering whisky.
