Single barrel (#195)Nose: I can really get on board with this. It smells thick. Maple syrup, almost like an extremely high quality spiced dark/navy rum. Stewed prunes and figs. Heavy, dark caramel cov…
from purchased sampleNose: Very fresh, acidic (green apples in honey). Extremely high quality vanilla, and varnish trending to sweet glue. Cake frosting. Very well integrated sweet and natural wood.…
gift sample (#78-3A), 16 years oldNose: Great, classy, and showing good age. Creamy rye and mint dominate, and just in perfectly balanced quantities. Fine sandalwood and slightly dry maple (wood). Coc…
from a purchased sampleNose: Surprisingly quiet at first. Strawberries and cherries open the show, and eventually an elegant stream of 'dirty' sherry emerges, along with brown sugar paste simmering with…
From a sampleNose: After it opens up, lovely oxidized sherry behind strawberry shortcake. Toffee and sandalwood, and a light herbal quality perhaps. Really nice, but a bit of a one note hit (even if it…
From a sample size-Nose: Oh, this is something special. It's got that high-sherry nearly extracted quality liqueur angle to it. Coffee, drops of cocoa, red fruit, tobacco, the perfect small pinch of a…
Gift sample.I vaguely remembered hearing something about this prior to tasting it, but I decided to just dive in without hitting the Googles. I went back to the Google in the middle of the tasting ses…
A sample from a friend (sometimes life is just awesome)-Nose: Lemon, waxy, some light coal and diesel fuel. Ginger, apple, white wine. This is all elegant, and just the slightest element of smoke. Olives…
More samples!Nose: Cheese! goat cheese and salted manchego. Oily, waxy, and a touch nutty. Some vanilla in the back. Plastic a la putty (it's actually appetizing). The peat and smoke are there, but just…
From a sample from a friend - 46%I've had a handful of standard Glenfarclas expressions, and a few Family Casks. The standard expressions left me a bit underwhelmed, though the 105 was really good. It…