Glenfarclas 1990 Thomas Carlyle Edition
Lot number: 074-3624
Winning bid: £155
Still in family hands since it was founded, the Glenfarclas Distillery is one of Speyside's independent whisky producers. The Grant family have been running Glenfarclas since 1860, producing an individual Speyside malt that many whisky enthusiasts number as one of their favourites. The water source is melt water from the slopes of Ben Rinnes which runs through granite and heather before reaching Glenfarclas(meaning 'the valley of green grass'). With a long history of bottlings stretching back to the early 20th Century, both proprietary and independent.
A respected historian, his 1837 book The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, and remains popular today. Carlyle's 1836 Sartor Resartus is a notable philosophical novel.
A great polemicist, Carlyle coined the term "the dismal science" for economics. He also wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia and his Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question (1849) remains controversial. Once a Christian, Carlyle lost his faith while attending the University of Edinburgh later adopting a form of Deism.
In mathematics, he is known for the Carlyle Circle, a method used in quadratic equations and for developing ruler-and-compass constructions of regular polygons.
Distilled: 1990
Bottled: 2017
Cask Numbers: 1195, 9472, 9520-9527
46% ABV / 70cl
Bottle Number: 1706 / 3000
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