Bottle Details
SMWS Code
1.211
Distillery
Glenfarclas
ABV
60.5%
Age
8 Years
Cask
1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel
Distilled
April 2011
Region
Speyside
Flavor Profile
Young & Spritely
Category
Scotch
The whisky presents a delicate aromatic profile with prominent grassy and floral notes reminiscent of daisy chains and buttercups, alongside icing sugar sweetness. Water addition introduces candy floss, meadow flowers, and boiled lemon sweets, with underlying warm malt and a subtle ozone character that evokes a potting shed on a summer's day.
It opens with a substantial lime jelly and mint character, followed by honey, citrus curd, and pink grapefruit notes with floral hints of elderflower. Reduction reveals layered flavours of lemon drizzle cake, aged Cointreau, and herbal elements including Thai basil and retsina pine notes.
The finish displays a lingering balance of citrus and mint, with subtle spice notes and a dry herbal quality that extends the whisky's complex flavour journey.
A tiptoe through the tulips. Lots of lightness, grassy notes, floral aspects, herbal, daisy chains, buttercups, icing sugar and then, out of nowhere, a wee droplet of tobasco, some toasted pistachios and milk bottle sweets dusted in green pepper. Water adds to the cauldron: candy floss, smints, ozone, clove rock, meadow flowers, baking soda, boiled lemon sweets, warm malt bins and a potting shed in the high summer sun. The palate opens rather weightily on lime jelly and mint. Also honey, filo pastry, citrus curds, pink grapefruit, elderflower champagne and juicy fruit chewing gum. With reduction there's lemon and honey liqueur, aged cointreau, lemon drizzle cake, freshly piled ironing, thai basil, polo mints and retsina pine wine.