Amazing!!!
Nose; butterscotch pudding, marmalade waterfall, crisp, green hay on a rainy day. one of the best nose ever! Taste; pumpkin pie, cold medicine, cucumber spice. Finnish; mouth watering lingering with sherry scent and berry bush. A true masterpiece of expression in a 15 year old dram. I would not be surprised to learn of significant age of and quality of the buts that this hails from. Like finding a needle in a haystack. Truly Epic!
Master of Malt Customer May 29, 2016
Lip smackingly good!
A lot has been said about this whisky. All I can add is whisky simply doesn't get better at this price point.
Amazing dram with a good glug of water. Rich and satisfying. I find Glenfarclas 15 somehow makes you feel refreshed after drinking it. Strange but it honestly does.
Just buy a bottle and enjoy it with friends. Slàinte
Rob, Somerset
Master of Malt Customer May 12, 2016
Glenfarclas 15 Year Old (bought in March of 2016 from Master of Malt for £45.46)
Nose neat: creamy pedro ximinez, orange pine kernel? Vanilla, sour lemon drops. After time in the glass, malty, bready, sweet, ripe banana, pear, strawberry sweets, subtle tobacco smoke, raisin, black bun, Christmas cake, creamy, cough syrup, sherry, more malt, peppermint? (22/25)
Taste Neat: sweet, fruit basket, spicy, peppery.
(19/25)
Nose with water: Sweet bread, slight bite, pedro ximenez, sour fruit, sour dough? Lemon oil, aromatic, herbaceous, lemon curd? sugary sweeties, like rock, hints of juniper and eucalyptus. Toasty oak, wood cured ham, roasted spice like Nutmeg, more creamy sherry.
(23/25)
Taste with water: creamy and lemon sweet arrival, raisin, definitely sour dough, sour lime, clear bourbon flavours of vanilla and American oak. bitter-sweet. Spicy and slightly nutty finish that is toasty and oaky.
(23/25)
Presentation point: (1/1)
Conclusion: About a BIG arrival when neat. Very sherried, but water brings out the real bourbon influence, reminiscent of bulleit rye. Sweet when neat, but very astringent and complex with a good water helping. This "sherry bomb" is about more than just sherry. It does seem that most of the higher quality casks may be bourbon, and that the bourbon part of this whisky is older than 15 years.
Points: (88/101)
Master of Malt Customer Apr 16, 2016
Incredible christmassy flavours
Exquisite whisky with flavours reminding me of Christmas time, but certainly a whisky to be sipped all year round.
Master of Malt Customer Apr 14, 2016
Staff Pick
Winner of 3 awards
