Glenfarclas Family Cask 1988 w18
$1,256.99
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1993 Summer 2020
$509.99
Matured in a 4th Fill Butt (code for they don't know how many times the cask has been used) this 1993 vintage single cask, 4677, was bottled at 57.2% as a part of the Summer 2020 Glenfarclas Family Casks.Limit 1 per customer! 90.09pts Whisky Base
Glenfarclas Family Cask 2000 Summer 2020
$390.99
Rocking 89.35pts on Whisky Base, this roughly 20 year old Glenfarclas was matured in a 4th Fill Butt (code for they don't know how many times its been used) before bottling a 53.7%. This was released as a part of the Summer 2020 Family Casks.
Glenfarclas Family Cask 2004 Summer 2020
$414.99
Distilled in 2004 and filled into a Refill Sherry Butt #2417, the whisks (thanks for the cheeky kitchenware comment, Jeff!) whisky was matured 15-16 years before bottling at 58.8% as a Glenfarclas Family Cask. The whisky is classified as 4th Fill, but that is the coding Glenfarclas uses when they are uncertain of the provenance of the cask. More likely it is 2nd or 3rd fill.
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1994 Summer 2020
$480.24
This 4th Fill (probably 2nd actually) Sherry Butt (cask 4337) matured Glenfarclas was distilled in 1994 and bottled after 26 years at 50.5%. 90.73pts Whisky Base
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 30.110
$169.99
ESPRESSO TO THE POWER OF FOUR
CALGARY MEMBER ORDERS ONLY UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 7th.
This 12 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill ex-sherry butt and is 64.5%.
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits.
Outturn: 596 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "An amazing colour of highly polished conkers was followed by a herbal whack, almost slightly medicinal - like crushed aspirin - but at the same time roasted chestnuts and blackstrap rum. On the palate neat it reminded us of two classic cocktails ‘Corn ‘n’ Oil’ and ‘Dark ‘n’ Stormy’ – serious stuff. Assertive spices met dark treacle toffee and an espresso to the power of 4!
With the addition of water, a dark sweetness of molasses appeared next to caramelized figs as well as a prune and Armagnac tart. The taste was that of a juicy pack of sultanas stirred with a cinnamon stick and a death by chocolate cake made with PX Sherry."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 93.133
$149.99
APOCALYPSE COW
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From Campbeltown, this 8 year old was matured in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and is 59%.
Flavour profile: Lightly peated.
Outturn: 223 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "Another serving of madness salad from this remarkable Campbeltown distillery. Pine air freshener, bicycle inner tube, umami paste, black olives in brine, muddy seawater, boiled clams, salty pasta water, spicy salami, sooty grist, preserved lemons, old-style herbal peat, rooty and fantastically earthy. Some kind of salty petrichor. Extremely excellent stuff! Reduction brings freshly smoked mackerel, crushed seashells, fermenting hay, heather brooms, squid ink, paraffin, boiler smoke, liniment, ammonia, smoked chipotle chilies and English mustard powder dusted over burlap.
The mouth is fantastically oily and textured. Lots of syrupy medicines, dry phenolics, some bone dry, flinty old Riesling, natural tar extracts, salty Dutch liquorice and bountiful esters - we're close to some high ester Jamaican rum in some aspects. Water brings lighter fluid, raw mezcal, floor cleaners, roofing pitch, grease, lychee syrup and green olives. Glorious insanity!"
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 52.36
$157.99
CHERRIES, FERRIES AND SALTED BERRIES
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This 13 year old Highlander is 59.2% and after spending 11 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead it was transferred to a 1st fill sherry hogshead for the remainder of its maturation.
Flavour profile: Oily & coastal.
Outturn: 248 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "The soft fruits of apples, pears and tangerines merged with oloroso sherry before oily sardines joined flint rocks and wood char. Then sultanas and figs found sea salt covered chestnuts as we ventured onto a palate of ginger and liquorice. Juicy red wine notes of black cherries and jam joined burnt driftwood with salty notes suggesting brine.
With water came salted dark chocolate, marzipan and hazelnuts with an obscure combination of hot cross buns and shellfish. Heavier oak now shone through with tree bark, cigar boxes and wood tannins but with black coffee, toasted barley and puffs of oily smoke that lasted long onto the finish.
After spending 11 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead this was transferred to a 1st fill Spanish oak Pedro Ximenez hogshead for the remainder of its maturation."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 66.174
$274.99
A VINTAGE DINNER SUIT
This 22 year old Highlander comes in at 56.1% after maturing in a refill ex-bourbon hogshead.
Flavour profile: Peated
Distilled on: 23 October 1997
Outturn: 259 bottles