Braeval 2014 MM The Art of Maturation - Benchmark
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Braeval |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | The Art of Maturation - Benchmark |
| Vintage | 2014 |
| Bottled Year | 2023 |
| Age | 8년 |
| Cask Type | 1st fill Bourbon Barrel 8 years American Oak |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 56.8% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
it reminds of those mezcal-flavoured agave sweets that you can find in Mexico, they sometimes come with worms inside. Also very grassy, yeasty, gristy, with bags of green apples and, well, an extremely moderate bourbonness. Not much vanilla. Somewhat in the style of those crazy young Glendullans or Glen Speys that they were having at Cadenhead around the mid-1990s (a.k.a. dragster fuels). With water: some very noticeable saponification, plus fern and tomato bush. More yeast, while the soapiness fades away
restaurant Palate
very grassy and bitter lemon skin. Really extreme, I doubt the plan was to make us drink this neat. With water: now we're talking. Lime, fruit peel, lemon drops, matcha tea, and just some grass and green peppercorns. Raw but not unpleasant
timer Finish
long, ultra-grassy. Eating lemon peel – with the bitter white stuff, the name keeps escaping me. Right, google tells us it's 'albedo', not sure I'll remember that forever
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