Glenfarclas 21 Year Old Grant Bonding Co for Edoardo Giaccone / Edward and Edward

Glenfarclas is considered by many to be one of the finest distilleries in Speyside. Its direct-fired stills produce a heavy single malt that is almost exclusively matured in Jerez sherry casks. The distillery focuses on single malt over blends, and a cool microclimate around the distillery that means that their casks are particularly stingy to the "angels," resulting in an incredible depth of stock. Glenfarclas also feel they share some credit for the modern day love of cask strength whisky, introducing their acclaimed 105 proof expressions back in 1968.

Like many other distilleries in the 1960s and 1970s, Glenfarclas licensed its single malt brand to Gordon & MacPhail who produced official releases using their Grant Bonding Co subsidiary. As the single malt category began to grow in popularity, many distilleries began to reclaim control of their brands, and Glenfarclas was one of them, bottling their own whisky for the first time in 1979.

An incredible example of Glenfarclas from the early 1970s, this was bottled for Edoardo Giaccone, owner of the Whiskyteca in Salo, Italy. Giaccone was something of a trailblazer, and was importing specially bottled official single malts for his bar in the late 1960s. He opened the famous venue in 1958, and it has been called a few different things over the years, including Garten, Edward & Edward, and La Taverna del Comandante.

Edoardo set the stage for later legendary bottlers such as Silvano Samaroli, Nadi Fiori and Ernesto Mainardi. Moon Import founder, Pepi Mongiardino said, "he was the first person I visited" when he became the distributor for Bruichladdich in 1981. Giaccone did not have any of his own labels or series, but was the first person in Italy to have official bottlings produced exclusively for him. Through his bar, Italy was treated to exclusive releases from Clynelish, Bowmore, Dalmore, Highland Park and even Jack Daniel's.

This is one of two 21 year olds bottled in this taller style for Giaccone, the other being a cask strength offering.