Glenfarclas 12-year-old

Michael Jackson
"House Style - Big, complex, malty, sherryish. After dinner.

GLENFARCLAS 10 -year-old, 40% abv.

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Color - Full gold.
Nose - Big, with some sherry sweetness and nuttiness, but also smokiness at the back of the nose.
Body - Characteristically firm.
Palate - Crisp and dry at first, with the flavour filling as it develops.
Finish - Sweet and long

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Color - Straw with good gold gighlights.
Nose - Slightly rubbery, delicately light and sweet, leafy oak with a slight tang of coffee.
Flavour - Sweet, malty, full, rich and round.
Finish - Slightly spicy, long and characterful.

GLENFARCLAS 12 -year-old, 40% abv.

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Color - Bronze
Nose - Drier with a quick, big attack
Body - Firm, slightly oily.
Palate - Plenty of flavour, with notes of peat smoke.
Finish - Long with oaky notes, even at this relatively young age.

GLENFARCLAS 15 -year-old, 40% abv.

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Color - Amber.
Nose - Plenty of sherry, oak, maltiness, and a hint of smokiness - all the elements of a lovely, mixed bouquet.
Body - Firm rounded.
Palate - Assertive, again with the elements beautifully melded.
Finish - Long and smooth.

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Color - Gold/peaty with very bright rich golden highlights.
Nose - Full, rich and sweet, with a luscious, unctuous oily-oak character and delicately peated.
Flavour - Sweet, rich and creamy, very intense, full-bodied and smooth with hints of burnt peat.
Finish - Gloriously sweet, gently smoky - long and distinguished.

GLENFARCLAS 25 -year-old, 43% abv.

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Color - Dark Amber.
Nose - Pungent, sappy.
Body - Big with some dryness of texture.
Palate - The flavours are so tighly interlocked at first that the whisky appears reluctant to give up its secrets. Very slow, insistent flavour development. All the components gradually emerge, but in a drier mood.
Finish - Long, oaky, sappy. Extra points out of respect for idiosyncratic age.

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Color - Amber with gold highlights.
Nose - Full ripe, sweet and round, finely peated with aromas of orange marmalade, honey, coffee and sherry nuttiness.
Flavour - Full-flavoured, smooth, sweet with oaky vanilla tannins and coffee and toffee flavours.
Finish - Fresh with smoky nuttiness and long lasting.

GLENFARCLAS 30-year-old, 43% abv.

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Color - Refractive, bright amber.
Nose - Oaky, slightly woody.
Body - Very firm
Palate - Nutty and oaky.
Finish - Oaky, sappy, peaty.

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Color - Quite full amber with old gold highlights.
Nose - Big-bodied, medium-sweet, mature and quite fresh, intense and very rich with notes of lemon/honey cough linctus, madarin oranges, citrus oil and honeyed oak.
Palate - Big-bodied, almost dry, but with a good rich edge, gently oaky chewy, a velvety smooth unctuousness and citrus character.
Finish - Long, quite delicately perfumed and complex - honey, beesway and chocolates.

GLENFARCLAS 105 no age statement, 60% abv
Known as 105°, and is 8 to 10 years old

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Color - Full gold to bronze.
Nose - Robust: butterscotch and raisins.
Body - Full, heavy.
Palate - Very sweet, rich nectar, with some honeyish dryness.
Finish - Long and warmed by the high proof. Rounded.

Malt Whisky File: John Lamon & Robin Tucek

Color - Deep, peaty amberwith gold highlights.
Nose - Very spirity, slightly astringent, slightly sweet.
Flavour - Spirity, malty, a little oily-oak character, quite austere.
Finish - Long, flavoursome and, surprisingly, quite dry.

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