10 Years Of The Glenfarclas Family Casks

In 2007 J&G Grant formally launched ‘The Family Casks’; an exclusive collection of 43 vintage dated Single Cask Whiskies ranging from 1952 to 1994. It was a remarkable achievement at the time for any distillery to have casks bottled from a continuous run of years and was the only known collection to span 43 years.

The Family Casks are the best single casks from the distillery’s warehouses, bottled at cask strength and at natural colour which is displayed perfectly in clear flint bottles.

Ten years later and the range has exceeded all expectations. Many expressions have now sold out or have only a finite number of bottles left; it’s a race against time for whisky enthusiasts to find their favourite year! The range has been extended up to and including 2001, there are no more 1952 or 1953 Family Casks remaining, and the most popular is the 1979 release- another surprise from the collection as this is one of the lightest expressions available!

At the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival George Grant hosts an extremely popular event open to just 20-30 people, where festival-goers join in the nosing and tasting process to choose the next Family Cask edition. This is a unique opportunity to be able to offer fans, and we are delighted to even see some familiar faces return each year to take part. Keep an eye out on the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival website to find out if this golden opportunity will arise again next year.

The latest installment of the collection has been chosen and is almost ready to begin its bottling process; a 2002 first fill Oloroso sherry butt, cask number 3770, which is maturing nicely in one of our dunnage warehouses. We look forward to launching it later this year!

A full interview with George Grant, 6th Generation of the Grant family, about the Glenfarclas Family Casks can be found at ScotchWhisky.com

For more information about the range, please contact info@glenfarclas.com