Brora 1981 FC
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Brora |
| Bottler | First Cask (FC) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 2005 |
| Age | 23년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
that good old porridge is back, something sorely lacking in most of today’s malts, along with hints of ink, slightly overripe apples, saltpetre and soot, paraffin, hay, and proper farmhouse cider (not that pub-dispensed fizz, mind you) … No peat, or barely any, but a style that already feels bygone, which turns out to be rather moving after all these years. In short, none of that modern jiggery-pokery in these bottlings
restaurant Palate
the sherry cask’s a little more vocal here, bringing along our old chums, aged walnuts and oxidised apples, along green banana, a few touches of bay leaf, a salty tang and a touch of seaside white plonk that, as they say, calls for oysters. Hints of edible flowers too—pansies, borage…
timer Finish
not the longest, slightly dusty and ashy, but lovely and honest, with a salty amontillado-like quality emerging right at the end. Perhaps it’s in the finish that it shines the brightest. Forgot to mention mandarins, which is pretty Clynelish from those years too