Code
Distillery
Glenfarclas
Name
The Real Deal
Producer
SMWS
Region
Speyside
Age
8 years
ABV
63.5%
Bottler Type
Independent
Category
Scotch
Flavor Profile
Spicy & Sweet
The whisky displays natural robustness with prominent notes of canvas, dry cereals, starched linens, chalk and mineral oil. Water brings sweeter cereal tones, ozone freshness, sheep wool and savoury miso, revealing a taut, well-structured character.
It is wonderfully rich on the mouth with condensed milk, sharp green apple, muddled herbs, fennel and hessian, followed by malt extract. The initial dryness gives way to sweeter notes of toffee, vanilla pods and ginger biscuits.
The finish is marked by oily and mineral tones with green tea, flower honey and charred pineapple, demonstrating the refill cask's influence on the distillate's complexity.
Lovely to try this great make from a refill cask we all agreed. The natural robustness of the distillate showed through straight away with canvass, dry cereals, starched linens, chalk and mineral oil. After that it became sweeter with toffee, vanilla pods and ginger biscuits. Water brought sweeter cereal tones, ozone freshness, sheep wool and savoury miso. The sense of a taut, well-structured distillate. The mouth was wonderfully rich with condensed milk, sharp green apple, muddled herbs, fennel and hessian. A dollop of malt extract too. Reduction brought more oily and mineral tones with green tea, flower honey and charred pineapple.