1/I poured the Glenfarclas 25 next to a few of its neighbours this week, and it stood a little apart. It's an old sherried Speyside that the people who love it tend to really love. That's the heart of it.
2/Ask the drinkers of the bottles nearest it what the Glenfarclas is worth to them, each starting from what they pay for their own, and the answers run from $93 to $307. At $440 it sits above all of them. It's priced for its fans.
3/The nose is honey and malt, zesty fruit softened by an old sherry-soaked oak, a little vanilla pod. Light, but the age is there. On the palate: sherry spice and stewed fruit, light tobacco, a faint chocolate, that mellow sherried malt. The years come through.
4/There are about 24 standard drinks in a bottle, so a pour at home comes to $18.53. For someone already settled in this style, that's a slow evening with an old sherried Speyside. It rewards sitting with it.
5/So who's it for? If you already live in sherried Speyside, this is your dram and you'll know it on the first nose. If you're curious rather than committed, one of the nearer bottles will meet you closer to where you already drink. Both are honest yeses.
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