Brora 1981 DT Rare Auld
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Brora |
| Bottler | Duncan Taylor (DT) |
| Bottling Series | Rare Auld |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 2009 |
| Age | 27년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 53.8% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
짙은 황금빛이 잔에 또렷이 비친다. 1981년에 증류돼 27년을 보낸 브로라가 폐쇄된 노스 하이랜드 증류소의 마지막 농도를 잔 안에 풀어낸다. 향에는 마른 짚과 옅은 향나무 연기, 밀랍이 또렷이 깃들어 있다. 머금으면 양봉 꿀과 짭짤한 미네랄, 옅은 가죽이 두꺼운 질감으로 입을 채우고 53.8도의 도수가 옛 브로라 특유의 왁시한 결을 길게 풀어낸다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
ooooh yes, everything is there but don’t worry, it won’t be too long. Wax, linseed oil, fresh walnuts, shoe polish, apple peelings, new leather, brown coal, sea-battered rocks, metal polish, grapefruits, ‘Riesling’, smoked salmon, old tin box… Really superb! Granted, maybe it hasn’t got the ‘majesty’ of the full proof versions for Giaccone but still, what a glorious dram!
restaurant Palate
incredibly big and powerful after all these years, and superbly compact at the attack. How is that possible? There’s more peat now, more spices as well (it’s a rather unusual spiciness, saffron?), quite some salt, and the rest is quite similar to what we got in the nose. ‘Of course’, you have to like this very peculiar waxiness that one can still find in many modern Clynelishes, sometimes to a lesser extent. We do! The whole drops just a bit after a few seconds, which is rather normal. Slight cardboardiness at this stage but the rest was so brilliant that we won’t care too much
timer Finish
not very long but extremely subtle, more resinous now (mastic gums), with many many spices of different origins. No, we won’t list them all