Amazing stuff with a syrupy texture. Sherry cask profile full of dark dried fruits, tropical fruits, nuts, and spices while also having that signature Bruichladdich cream cheese tasting note. Nose: Raisins, Figs, Dates, Prunes, Sour Cherries, Toffee, Sultanas, Strawberries, Pineapples, Hazlenuts, Nutmeg, Oranges, Papayas, Grapefruit, Milk Chocolate, Brown Sugar, Licorice, Walnuts, Cream Cheese, Bananas, Honey, Mangoes, Lavender Palate: Raisins, Figs, Prunes, Hazlenuts, Milk Chocolate, Red Apples, Toffee, Cinnamon, Christmas Cake, Dates, Oranges, Tobacco, Leather, Cloves, Old Oak Finish: Milk Chocolate, Raisins, Sour Cherries, Strawberries, Raspberries, Nutella, Papayas, Almonds, Figs, Sultanas, Pineapples, Dark Chocolate, Hazlenuts, Salted Toffee
About this bottle
Released as part of a trio Rare Cask Series bottles released in late 2017, this 30-year-old represents the final seven barrels distilled in 1986. The unpeated single malt was first filled into oloroso sherry butts where it matured for 26 years. In 2012, then master distiller, Jim McEwan, recasked the whisky into Pedro Ximenez butts from Bodega Fernando de Castilla. Bottled without added color or chill-filtration at cask strength of 44.6% ABV. This is a limited release of 4200 bottles.
How it tastes
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Treacle, Madeira, soaked rum cake, sticky toffee pudding but this is all in the nose. The palate is much more simplistic as it is drenched in Sherry and wine. But a wonderful whisky to nose.
Simply amazing.
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