Glenfarclas 1974 31 year old, 57.4%

After hearing some rave reviews of this US-release bottle, I decided to go in for it and try it out. Sometimes, there's nothing like a great, old sherry wonder. I've been going through this bottle faster than I've gone through almost any other bottle.

Further disclaimer, I'm not going to use my notes with water because, after trying it with water a few times, it's not worth doing. It doesn't swim well, and it really doesn't need the water anyway.

Nose: Chocolate, dried figs, chocolate, stewed cherries, orange zest oil. It has almost a bourbony-coffee quality here. It's dark, and even figgier, and spiced, dark fruit cake. It's rich as heck, dense, and easy to keep nosing for hours on end.

Palate: Intense, dark, and heavy. It's a sherry bomb, but anything but cloying or sweet. More on coffee here than chocolate. Spice, cloves, anise, leather (polished), burned fruit. FIGS. Raisins, prunes, and dried cherries.

Finish: Coffee, chocolate, and, you guessed it, figs. Prunes, raisins, burnt dry fruit cake. High quality orange-leather varnish. Powerful and effing awesome.

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