Glenfarclas 15 Year Old

Couldn't agree with you more Victor. The Glenfarclas 15 is one superb sherried whisky. I look forward to exploring other expressions in the Glenfarclas range. I'm considering the 17 or 21 yo next.

@CanadianNinja, don't expect the Glenfarclas 17 and 21 to be better than the 15. In my book, both the 17 and the 25 I have sampled are not equal to the 15. The 21 YO? I haven't tried it yet. The distillery characteristics, aka its "house style", is common to all ages of their releases, though, and you are likely to like them when in that sherry state of mind.

@Victor- "You can't touch this" - do I detect hints of MC Hammer 'yo, sound the bell, schools in suckah'

'Hammer' it is, @paddockjudge! I can hear the music now, and see the dancing.

@Victor - Did you own a pair of parachute pants back in the day? ;-)

Thanks for another wonderfully vivid review. The 'farclas 15 has always been high on my wish list, and your review moved it up even higher. At least I've now had the pleasure of tasting it in my mind.

@WhiskyBee, I do own a Hanbok outfit from my days in Seoul of which the pants are a bit like those Hammer harem pants.

I've had some Glenfarclas 12, 15, 17, 25, and 105, and the 15 YO is my favourite of those. The Glenfarclas cask selection is superior across the board, though.

@Victor: Totally agree. This is one of the finest, most accessible, most consistent, and most delicious sherried whiskies in the world. For those who know and love whisky, this is a beautifully complex and confident dram. But oppositely, this appeals to beginners, too. People with little to no knowledge of whisky tend to absolutely love this stuff. In my experience it's rare to find a finely crafted whisky with such universal appeal.

Although i am a 'farclas fan, i dissapointingly haven't ventured with the 15 yo yet. This review sure salivated my curiosity towards this malt, it has sneaked into flagship status for this distillery. The 12 year old has seemed to join it now, tasted it this summer, very impressed! Great review btw!

@Lifewaterforce, thank you for enjoying the review. Mr. Murray apparently got a bottle of Glenfarclas 15 in the last couple of years that disappointed him, but personally, I have not known anyone who has ever gotten a bad bottle. It is a sensational whisky. Quite beautiful.

Great review! I remember tasting this when I came down to Mont. Co. for the Ardbog. This was a real stand out, even in that mega-tasting.

Amazing dram. I did a full vertical Glenfarclas tasting at the Mash Tun in Aberlour (with George Grant handling the pours) and the two standout drams were the 15 and the 40. Well, they were all standouts. But those two were the tops.

Yes, @talexander, the Glenfarclas 15 and the 40 are without question my top two picks for Glenfarclas, also. Such a treat it is to have a dram of either one of them. If my whisky budget were a lot bigger I would always have Glenfarclas 40 YO on hand...in fact, I'd probably pick up 5 or 6 bottles of it to make sure that I continued to have it on hand for a good while.

When I was last in Scotland, I had the rare pleasure of a 40 year old Glenfarclas - but an old SMWS bottling that happened to be at a bar on Islay! It was the colour of ink - delicious but oversherried, unlike the distillery bottling.

You just forced me to order one.... Great review!

I agree this is great stuff - and plenty of the whisky in this is older than 15yrs, surely!

It's VERY balanced. Sherried, sure, but not so sherried that the rest takes a back-seat.

This is British fruit-cake in a bottle :-)