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“At first, we found beeswax wood furniture polish with some natural orange oil before a mixture of pickled ginger and wasabi, but also old-fashioned sweets of cola cubes…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 1.230 is a single cask of Glenfarclas, in the Speyside region, 7 years old, bottled at 61%. Every Society bottle numbered 1.x is from Glenfarclas.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Beneath Ben Rinnes at Ballindalloch, Glenfarclas was licensed in 1836 and bought in 1865 by John Grant for £511 19s; his descendants still own and run it, one of Scotland's last truly independent family distilleries. Its six stills, the largest on Speyside, are fired directly by gas, and long years in sherry butts give a rich, dried-fruit, Christmas-cake depth. Still the Grants', five generations on.