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.
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Noses and drinks almost like an 18yo. Age. Wood shavings. Sherry. Very soft mature malt, with aeration. Marzipan. Forest funk. Very impressed. Needs a drop of water, this, but doesn't take much. Recommend one fourth of a teaspoon.
Don’t. If you like your sherry and Christmas cake go for Glendronach 12/15/18/21. This just isn’t what you’re looking for.
This is typical Glenfarclas style bottled at a respectable 46% abv. Very descent whisky along the lines of the 17 and 18 with good sherry influence, great if you like Glenfarclas distillery and sherried scotch. Speyside is part of the Highland region, Glenfarclas considers itself part of this also and you can taste this. I consider Glenfarclas a Speyside that is robust like a Highland. Glendronach 12/15/18/21 offers this Speyside sherried style with more refinement and elegance but Glenfarclas 12,15,17,18,21,25 are of consistently high quality and undervalued. I personally prefer Glenfarclas 105 and 2004 cask strenght offerings in their core range below the 21 but to each their own. Glenfarclas 15 sets a benchmark it is well matured in high quality sherry casks and is just a nice full flavored dram in this style and age of whisky.
Opened this bottle and a few others when relatives came to visit. Even non whiskey drinkers had a few drams of this nectar. Those who say it's a bad whiskey have serious problems with their taste buds. One of the best I have ever tried.
Go for a Glendronach, Glen Garioch, Glenglassaugh or a Glenfiddich even, but don't buy this. This one tastes predominantly of alcohol, the sherry influence, to me, is quite weak and very straight forward. No complexity to be found here. The finish is by far the most dissapointing of all: it's non existent. I can't get my head around the chaps' tasting notes, this is by far the whisky with the shortest finish that I know of. As someone who likes to enjoy a quality cigar with his sherried malt this was extremely dissapointing. I ended up mixing half of the bottle with my evening coffee just to get rid of it's contents, although I do have to say Glenfarclas 15 beats Jameson for a decent Irish/Scottisch coffee.
