Glenfarclas 1953 58 Year Old
Bottle performance
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Lot number: 080-0438
Winning bid: £4,000
Still in family hands since it was founded, the Glenfarclas Distillery is one of Speyside's independent whisky producers. The Grant family has 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 bottlings are much sought after.
It was bought by Glenfarclas and filled with whisky on 20 November 1953. After 58 years of slow maturation in Glenfarclas' traditional Highland Dunnage warehouses, the 1953 cask yielded only 400 full 70cl bottles.
The whisky was bottled at cask strength of 47.2% ABV and, of course, is naturally coloured and non-chill filtered. This lot includes a book about the distillery.
Distilled: 20.11.1953
Bottled: 13.02.2012
Age: 58 Years Old
Cask Type: First Fill Sherry Butt
Cask Number: 1674
47.2% ABV / 70cl
Bottle Number: 75 / 400
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