Glenfiddich 50 Year 50ml

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The Glenfiddich 50 year old is truly a remarkable whisky. I had an opportunity to taste it several months back and was blown away by its complexity. Even more remarkable was the subtlety it projected; most whiskies of this age are well on their way to being over the hill, but not this one! Bottled in 1991 in a limited edition of just 500 bottles, this whisky came from a batch of nine casks laid down in the 1930s (one cask was laid down for each of William Grant's nine children, who had helped to build Glenfiddich distillery in the 1880s). The whisky itself is, perhaps unsurprisingly, quite oaky (without being overpoweringly so), and has an elegant, complex palate of subtle dried fruit flavours.

750 ml