Most of you will already be familiar with the ‘movember’ concept; the basic idea is that during the month of November, men grow silly (for the most part) moustaches and get sponsored for doing so – a bit like a “fun run”, except for the fact that movember is actually fun. The money raised goes towards men’s health issues, with focus on prostate and other cancers.

In honour of this, Master of Malt and Glenfarclas teamed up to create a special Movember whisky, and they recruited a fellow Edinburgh-based whisky blogger – the highly knowledgeable Chris, from over at the Edinburgh Whisky Blog – to give them a hand. He was invited over to Glenfarclas to choose two 9-year old casks that he thought would marry well, and these then went on to become the Movember whisky. I really don’t do the story justice, but I figured there’s not much point in my retelling another blogger’s adventures! So if you want to read the story, head on over to the Edinburgh Whisky Blog.

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Glenfarclas, Valley of the green grass, a fantastic Speyside distiller indeed. Unfortunately all I know of its history is that the distillery was founded around 1836, and that is has been run by the Grant family for 6 generations.

The 15 year old expression which I’m taking a look at today is priced at about £35 ($55) which makes it exceptionally good value for money. I don’t know if I should say this quite so publicly (though I am surely flattering myself in considering that anyone from the distillery should stumble upon my humble blog), but I would gladly pay near the double for a bottle of this outstanding whisky.

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