Royal Brackla 16-year-old Zenith Import
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Royal Brackla |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1970 |
| Bottled Year | 1986 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
진한 황금빛이 잔에 깊게 머문다. 하이랜드 로열 브라클라가 1970년 빈티지로 16년의 시간을 보낸 뒤 1986년 디스틸러리 보틀링의 제니스 임포트 라벨로 57도의 캐스크 강도에 병입된 빈티지 보틀링이다. 향에는 잘 익은 배와 꿀, 옅은 향신료와 마른 허브의 결이 또렷이 깃들어 있다. 입에서는 캐러멜과 토피, 미세한 후추가 두꺼운 질감으로 흐르고 옅은 오크가 입천장을 덮는다. 여운에는 우드와 향신료의 결이 길게 이어진다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
oh, there’s also a little peat in there! Much less, that is. Bold notes of citronella and stones, flints, with whiffs of rubber (rubber band), fresh mint leaves and cooking yellow plum jam. Quite rounded for such a high strength malt, very jammy, It gets then very winey but it’s more like a Sauternes or an Alsatian late harvest wine than like a sherry. Lots of very ripe fruits, bananas, ginger bread, … Let’s try it with a few drops of water: it gets a little grassier now, with notes of forest, fern and moss, pine needles, old papers… Great, it got even more complex
restaurant Palate
very sweet, astonishingly rounded and drinkable at more than 60%, very creamy, on tons of fruit jam again, orange salad with honey and olive oil (try that one day, it’s delectable), resin sweets, rubber, cough syrup… Excellent, I guess it was a refill cask. Let’s add water: oh, it gets even creamier and fruitier, on Xmas cake, candied kumquats, ginger. Quite some pepper, hints of cloves, fruit liqueurs… And always quite some rubber. The finish is very long, very bold and very fruity. One of these great old Bracklas, definitely, maybe there’s just a little too much rubber. 89 points . Royal Brackla 1983 (57.5%, The Whisky Connoisseur)