Glenfarclas 1998-2014 | The Family Cask 5357Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery Bottling 70cl 58. 1% One of the recent batches of Glenfarclas's brilliant ongoing Family Cask series. This is a 1998 from a refill sherry butt bottled at a natural cask strength of 58. 1% in 2014 with an outturn of just 685 bottles. A lovely pale, refill matured teenage Glenfarclas that should show a bit more spice and muscle than some of the older casks in this series.

Lined up they make for a fascinating window into the maturation process of a masterfully made

with gentle threads of smoke and sweet peat in an intensely complex palate that shows remarkable elegance and grace - not words one would often associate with this iconic Islay distillery

Distillery Bottling 4

often a dirty earthiness and big sharp citrus characteristics

medicine cabinet of a Caol Ila

Michael Jackson:

Mature oak endures on the finish

A legendary Port Ellen 1979

smoky and lush with big flavours of green and dark fruits in equal measure

Distillery Glengoyne

Expect bags of honey

These short-lived blue wooden box 30-year-olds are particularly rare these days