A heavily sherried 21-year-old from the Glenfarclas distillery. This offers loads of depth, a tremendous dram from the independent Speyside distillery.
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Apple, orange, less sherry than the 15yo. Peppermint again?!
Incredibly smooth. Barley-rich, just a textbook smoothness and rounded character that leaves you gasping for another sip…
Long, barley-rich, awesomely smooth, very little oak influence.
Very, very pleasant. Could teach Roger Moore a thing or two about smoothness.
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I think it has something to do with it being closed. I have a bottle from 2011 and when i first opened it the one scent that dominated everything was as you said old-wet-wood! But after a prolonged oxidation in the bottle with some air and a little perseverance, it opened up to a wonderful dark fruit christmas cake flavor-profile. So according to my experience it might be the whisky being closed as i also had the wet-wood treatment that was so bad i directly thought the particular bottle i had was bad or just a duffer. So a usefull tip give it time, lotsa time!
I must've gotten a bad bottle the first time I purchased this from a shop: serious taste of old, wet wood with everything else quite diminished and and a quickly disappearing aftertaste. The one I'm tasting right now has much bolder aromas with none of that 'soggy cask' taste to taint it, and it lingers on the tongue and in the throat much longer. Good stuff for the price it commands.
Yes,you get peppermint and citrus + a whole range of whisky tastes. Oak is there as always (it is whisky after all),to describe it as 'harsh' in this case is, to me, simply wrong. While I don't entirely disagree with previous comments I want to comment on the smoothness and lingering special after taste.
Nose: Lots of nose, oak and harsh wood. Of course vanilla, nuts and sherry. Taste: Again, harsh, wood, strong and bold. Bubbly and lovely Summary: Lots of character, peppery, very nice balance. Light and a feeling of summer. Smooth and complex. Not that much sherry as hoped but still a great whisky. /Jens, www.chwisgi.com
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