The first distillery ever bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society back in the early eighties. By now they’ve done more than 156 bottlings of their casks and this is one of their latest.

Nose:
Pretty heavy at first, but apart from something feinty it’s fairly unspectacular. There’s isn’t that much happening at first. After a short while a lot of cereals pop up and I get quite some liquorice and ginger. The cereals are thick but not malty. A little ‘green’.

Taste:
Very sharp with heaps of pepper. Almost astringent and quite some wood. It’s very hot with alcohol and there’s some vanilla too. Again, not very spectacular.

Finish:
In the finish I get not many new flavours apart from the cereals that go more in the direction of rye and shortbread. Still sharp.

It’s a weird one, this one. At first I got all the above and it felt a bit unbalanced. Too much alcohol, a little green and such. I wrote down two stars. But after half an hour in the glass it seemed to find its balance and started getting the flavours right. No new flavours, but just more in proportion. Then I wrote down trhee stars. I’m still in doubt.

Glenfarclas 10, 1999-2010, SMWS, ‘New York Cheesecake’, 63.2% (!), First Fill Barrel, probably around € 75 when it came out.

 when drunk quickly.

 when you let it air enough.