Glenfarclas Family Cask 1997 W18
$486.99
This 1997 Glenfarclas Family Cask was bottled for their winter of 2018 release. It was matured in a refill Sherry butt for 21 years and bottled at a cask strength of 57.1% ABV. It currently has a Whiskybase score of 89.96.
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1995 W18
$541.99
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1993 Winter 2018
$597.99
This Glenfarclas Family Cask was released in the winter of 2018. It was aged in a 4th Fill Butt - Cask 4662 - and bottled at 24 years of age and a cask strength of 56.8% ABV.
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1980 S18
$1,522.99
Bottled in the summer of 2018, this 37 year old Glenfarclas was matured in a Refill Hogshead, and has been bottled at 47.8%. Know anyone turning 40 in 2020? 1980 vintage bottlings are increadingly rare... Cask No. 1413. 89pts Whisky Fun.
Whisky Fun Tasting Note
"A sister cask, this should be interesting. Colour: light yellow. Nose: lots of freshly baked breads, sourdough starter, veg stock and curious things like roast chicken, bay leaf, tarragon and wild mushrooms. A meal in a glass! Goes on with baking soda, cornbread, ginger biscuits and a rather dry and peppery waxiness. Things like wax paper, canvas and old jackets. Freshly rolled oats, savoury flapjack, trail mix and toasted mixed nuts. Fresh, clean and getting increasingly cereal in profile. Mouth: full and syrupy in texture. Lots of toasted almonds, coconut oil, buttered bread, lemon peel, citrus infused darjeeling tea, mint leaf and fir liqueur. Touches of fennel seed, caraway and miso broth. Again this rather delicate waxiness in the background with similar peppery notes. Finish: long, earthy, all on olive oil, mixed shades of pepper, lime zest, white truffle and dried herbs. Comments: cleaner than its sibling and very good. A more technical and textbook early 80s Glenfarclas. I like the dryness, it felt very crisp and appetising."
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1986 Winter 2018
$1,259.99
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1980 w18
$1,522.99
Know anyone turning 40 in 2020, this would make a great gift, and 1980 vintages are increasingly hard to find. Matured 38 years in a Refill Hogshead, this Winter 2018 Family Cask release has been bottled at the perilously low cask strength of 43.3% from cask No. 1916. No tasting notes or reviews on this one, but we expect it is light and very tropical... right in Andrew's wheelhouse. It's sister cask scored 89pts with the guys at Whisky Fun.
Ardbeg Drum Committee Edition
$194.99
The theme for Ardbeg Day 2019 was a Caribbean carnival, and they decided to bottle a whisky finished in rum casks for the occasion. As always there was both a higher proof Committee Member edition, as well as a standard release at a lower proof. We have always felt the Committee Edition, at a higher proof, was more interesting. Early reports this time around seemed to imply the standard edition at 46% was better. On having tried them both, we still prefer the Committee Edition at 52%.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: mezcal with sea salt and fresh squeezed lime juice; the undersized of a lawn mower after it chokes on thick wet grass; doughy, malty and fruity with medicinal peat.
Palate: still with the thick, wet, freshly mowed grass on the underside of a gas powered lawnmower with a touch of clean engine oil; mezcal, sea salt, lime juice, juicy barley and medicinal maritime peat.
Finish: the finish is good with a bit more of the fruity doughy tones than the palate; still mezcal-y with fresh cut green grass and sea sale.
Comment: I kept hearing that the standard release this time around was better than the Committee Edition; I call BS; I like this a lot better than the standard release!
Laphroaig 25 Year 2014 45.1%
$669.19
Wrong SKU
Duncan Taylor Octaves Royal Brackla 2011
$66.49
A single sherry octave finished cask of Royal Brackla bottled at 53.1%.