Glenfarclas 15 Year

Actually a Speyside instead of a Highland. Destillery’s still like to confuse us and some of them see the speyside region as a sub-region of Highland. This malt still suprised me. It’s exactly at 46% what is special (most of them are 46,3% for example). It also means that it is non-chill filtered and we love that. It’s actually the only one that is non-chill filtered from the Glenfarclas series. Also at a natural colour. I chilled the malt for some time and there appeared some nice scotch mist what caused a better qualitly delivery in my opinion. Nose: Creamy, very malt-rich, dried fruits, mild nutty mixed with dark spices (like cardamom, clove and cinnemon) and some mocca notes. Taste: lots of dried fruits, plum, even a little minty. Conclusion: A nice approachable and easy drinking single malt.

Poland Exclusive, batch #2. Mocno gorzala daje, musialo sie przewietrzyc, waniliowo-drewniane nuty, orzechowe, lipka, 3,2, s: mocno pali w mordo, wanilia, drewno, czekoladka, karmel, orzechy, mocny spirol, nie podchodzi, 3,4 overall.

I have some years navigating my whisky adventure and i have tasted a lot of expressions from different distilleries, and the fact that i never tasted a Glenfarclas 15yo before is embarrasing for me. A true speyside classic, Glenfarclas sits in the same table of some other famous single malts from the same scottish region. Of course i expected some of the traditional tasting and aroma notes from this distillery. Bottled at 46%abv, This is a sherried matured whisky. On the nose, i got prunes, the typical glenfarclas apple note and cooked pineapple. Pretty nice. On the palate, the first note that appeared was sugar, sider and that apple profile that makes Glenfarclas unmistakeable. Aftertaste is all about milk and sugar notes with delicious red apples. Overall, this is exactly what you expect from a core range Glenfarclas. Nothing to die for, a properly done, average speyside dram. It will be enjoyable a 100% of the time, and you can use this one as an everyday single malt. My score system says 80 over 100, and i think that it is a precise score for a classic.