Glenfarclas Family Casks 1990 #9256 Highland Single Malt Whisky 51,9%
Glenfarclas is one of the few remaining Scottish distilleries still family owned. Since 1865, the distillery has been in the hands of the same family: The Grants. John Grant was actually a cattle breeder when he bought Recherlich Farm and Glenfarclas Distillery in 1865 for £511. It is six generations of whiskey connoisseurship that benefits us consumers today.
Glenfarclas means "Valley of the Green Grass" in Gaelic, and the skilled Scots get the water used in the distillation from a small spring that springs from the beautiful and dramatic Ben Rinnes. The distillery is located at the foot of the heather-covered mountain, where the water springs up from the underlying granite when the winter snow melts. The combination of the very clean, soft water and the completely unique shape of the potstills used by Glenfarclas contributes to the distillery's unique Highland Single Malts.