Royal Brackla 2008 vW The Ultimate - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Royal Brackla |
| Bottler | van Wees (vW) |
| Bottling Series | The Ultimate - Cask Strength |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Bottled Year | 2021 |
| Age | 14년 |
| Cask Type | Refill butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.7% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
옅은 호박빛이 잔 안에서 따뜻하게 빛난다. 리필 셰리 버트에서 온 건포도와 잘 익은 사과, 옅은 견과의 향이 코끝에서 부드럽게 어우러진다. 하이랜드 로열 브라클라의 14년 숙성답게 입안에서는 셰리의 단맛과 과수원 과일, 가벼운 향신료가 또렷하게 번진다. 57.7도의 도수는 강렬하지만 단맛이 그 힘을 둥글게 감싼다. 이 보틀링의 여운은 건과의 달콤함과 옅은 오크가 맞물려 길게 이어진다. 리필 셰리가 더한 은은한 깊이가 잔에 비친다.
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)