Royal Brackla 11-year-old CA Cadenhead's in The Courtyard 2019

CategorySINGLE MALT
DistilleryRoyal Brackla
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Age11년
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ABV57.5%
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CountryScotland
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Flavor Profile

Vanilla
Sweet
Oaky
Honey
Fruity
Creamy
Dried Fruit
Spicy
Nutty
Citrus
Herbal
Chocolate
Floral
Smoky
Peaty
Maritime

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)

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