Glenfarclas 2001 16 years old Authentic Collection - Bourbon Hogshead - Cadenhead's - b. 2018 - 70cl

Glenfarclas 2001/2018 - Authentic Collection, Cadenhead's, 54,1%, 700 ml

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Glenfarclas
Bottler: Cadenhead's
Bottling series: Authentic Collection
Vintage: 2001
Bottled: 05.2018
Stated Age: 16 years
Cask Type: Bourbon Hogshead
Number of bottles: 252
Strength: 54.1 %

Nose:
Old style, all dunnage floors and oily dungarees, albeit mixed with Taiwanese Oolong and tinned water chestnut. The alcohol adds an intensity,but there's sufficient vanilla elements to stop it becoming too hot. Water brings out an oxidized note akin to an unfiltered fino sherry.

Taste:
More demonstrative. Fat and generous, it leans in mixing some earthy dryness with marzipan/peach kernel and the distillery's slightly burnt note. The mid-palate has stewed apple. Water makes it richer, more coherent and showed the solidity of the distillate.

Finish:
Clotted cream and ripe melon.