Glenfarclas 1953, 47.2%

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