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Glenfarclas 1953, 47.2%
Price: $9,420 ● Issue: Fall 2012 ● Reviewer: Dave Broom
The hits just keep on coming for Glenfarclas. Here we see it not only with enormous age but in relaxed mode in terms of oak. You can tell it's old: the leathery waxiness and exotic fruits of whisky rancio; you can tell it's Glenfarclas because of the ever-present earthiness, but both are intensified into a new aromatic realm: gentlemen's barbershop, rowan berry, and images of an old bonfire next to a gingerbread house. Mysterious, subtle, and highly complex. £5,995