This Glenfarclas 8 year old is a regular bottling by Glenfarclas, done in 2007. It doesn’t use their standard dumpy shaped bottles, but a long regular bottle instead. Also, the label is slightly different with vertical lines in the back instead of plain white. With the lettering it always reminds me of baseball shirts.

I bought this bottle to show the great difference in taste it makes whether a whisky is young or old. It stood next to the Glenfarclas 25 and the difference was massive.

Nose:
Greasy sherry with a sharp edge. The first idea I get is that this whisky has been tampered with, I don’t know why but it feels like the sherry aroma is ‘added’ to the whisky. Dried fruits and stewed pears. Sweet port wine with a slight scent of cinnamon, vanilla and other sweet spices. Nuts maybe?

Taste:
The flavours need a while to come up. I get the feeling of it being tampered with again. Is this a sherry finish? Some sherry, but it feels like its hiding something. Again, a rather greasy feel with light milk chocolate and a buttery fudge.

Finish:
The finish has that same greasyness again, but lacks a bit in complexity. Its not bad, mind you, with canned fruit salad and again, a rather port-like feel.

This is a very strange whisky. Compared to older Glenfarclas’ I tasted this one does come off as young. Nothing wrong there, it is young. And, as you can see, there are a lot of flavours there to be explored, but for some reason I kept getting the feeling that something was a bit off. Its still not a bad whisky, just a bit of a weird one.

Glenfarclas 8, 2007, Used to cost around € 30 at the Whiskykoning, but I think I got the last bottle.

Nose: 6
Taste: 7
Finish: 6
Overal experience: 6
Price/quality: +1

Total: 26 points