Glenrothes 25-year-old vs Glenfarclas 25-year-old

Welcome back to another fantastic tasting of two single malts, where I spend the time discovering each one relative to the other. This is the best way for me to peel apart those intricate details. As usual, I will take down these notes in real time as I sip on the whiskies, and then I’ll […]

Balblair 18-Year-Old vs Glenfarclas 185th Anniversary

The second dram behind the closed door of the Cask Explorers Ruby Edition advent calendar is an 18-year-old bottling of Balblair. I take some time to find the perfect pairing from my personal collection and land on a non-age statement from Glenfarclas, bottled for their 185th anniversary. I could have picked another 18-year-old from the […]

Glenfarclas 15-year-old vs Glenfarclas 25-year-old

Glenfarclas is a family-owned independent distillery in Ballindalloch (Speyside), and it’s one of those bottlings that avid collectors of all vintage years aim to show off on their shelves. After all, The Family Casks, a collection of 43 single casks bottlings starting from 1952 to 1994, is the largest in the world. Luckily for you, […]

Glenfarclas 105 vs Mortlach 13-Year-Old

Well, it’s the end of 2021, and although the world is out there celebrating “something”, inside it’s just another night, which will roll into a new day, and so on, till our home remains within the orbit. So instead of doomsday thoughts, I choose to focus on the whisky. For this round, I select two […]