Royal Brackla 2008 DR Individual Cask Release
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Royal Brackla |
| Bottler | A.D. Rattray (DR) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Bottled Year | 2023 |
| Age | 14년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.8% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting 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)