Glenfarclas 1970, 42 YO (K&L Exclusive) Cask 2030

Nose: Rich and really fantastic. Heavily on chocolate with a very dry, bourbony quality. Slight rubber and a bit of a funky red-fruit sherried quality shining through it. Faint vanilla. Some people have said that there's a cherry-flavored cough syrup note, and I don't think that they're wrong. Lots of ridiculously heavy dark sherried whisky goodness. Maybe even a pinch of salt and touch of leather. Really doesn't need (and shouldn't take) water...

Palate: Thick, waxy, syrupy, and awesome. Chocolate, tobacco, a little dose of varnished leather - the kind you get in those great old sherried whiskies- and a bit more wax. Resinous. There;s a good deal of wood, but it's giving that chocolatey-bourbon wood vibe that I like. And me likey here, too. A lot. A little less fruit here; there's maybe just the recollection of that cough syrup element.

Finish: It's heavily sherried, to be sure, but nobody could ever call this sweet. Very much on funky old furniture, chocolate, varnish, salt, coffee, and all the characteristics of an old dog like this. Ok, also something rubbery and almost a single puff of smoke. Definitely in the dry sherry camp, it has some really big and strong elements more so that the number of flavors, but there's something to say for big and excellent whiskies like this. And I'll say some of it!

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