Brora 1972 GM Connoisseurs Choice
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Brora |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1972 |
| Bottled Year | 1996 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
bottled bliss. It's an extremely complex and elegant smoky whisky, at a perfect age. What's really striking is the combination of a perfect 'precision' with an incredible wideness, which is something that's very difficult to achieve for any spirit or wine. So we have a slightly rounded floweriness (dandelions, pollen), a profound smokiness that combines coal and peat, these tropical fruits that appear in old peaters when they reach a perfect age (especially old Laphroaig and Ardbeg), an incredible herbal side with almost everything you'd find in the most high-end of the most high-end cough syrups for millionaires (c'mon, S.!) and then this mid-farmy, mid-coastal profile that screams Brora. Oysters and hay? All that remains elegant all along, never aggressive, and that's not only because of the low strength
restaurant Palate
you'd think it's a gentle dram but that feeling will last for only a fraction of a second because what happens next is almost a peat blast. It's a waxy, greasy and maybe even herbal kind of peatiness, rather dry, with then bags of ashes, apple peeling and smoked tea (lapsang souchong). Also touches of mustard, maybe salicornia (wikipedia tells us you can also say sea asparagus in English) and then more salty liquorice. It's a deep one, really, too bad it tends to become a little drying, which makes it lose one or two points in my book
timer Finish
medium, salty and dry. Slightly bitter aftertaste. Again, not the best part
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