Bruichladdich Blacker Still
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Bruichladdich |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1986 |
| Bottled Year | 2006 |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | 2840 |
| ABV | 50.7% |
| Volume | 50 ml 700 ml 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pure gold (slightly darker than cask #3316)
air Nose
extremely close but probably a little less expressive, slightly more cardboardy and vanilled. A little less of everything but we do have that great balance fruits/sea again. Superb
restaurant Palate
it’s the other way ‘round now, this palate starts bolder and more expressive than its twin cask. More on oranges, Grand-Marnier, marmalade, vanilla sauce, quince… Much more powerful despite the slightly lower ABV. Maybe a little more peat as well and certainly more pepper, plus these very bold notes of cinnamon. The finish is longer as well, more balanced, creamier, in a nutshell: more satisfying. I feel it deserves one more point in fact, so it’s going to be 93 points . No wonder it sold just as quickly as its twin cask but maybe we can still find a few bottles on the Web… MALT MANIACS NEWSFLASH MM Monitor: Johannes (a.k.a. ‘his highness’) is currently cleaning up the data while Robert is studying a searchable database solution. A new, updated version should be online around December 15 whichever the solutions we find (expect probably more than 20,000 ratings altogether – hurray!) Several Maniacs are now very busy tasting the MM Awards' samples, including NYC’s Peter to whom we shipped the samples via a private jet (and this is no joke). Results will be announced on December 1st and we expect to be able to hand over a few awards or medals to the winners ‘physically’. Davin will take over a ‘book reviews’ section on the new Malt Maniacs website. In the meantime, I think you should check Neil Wilson and Ian Buxton’s impressive effort to bring very old whisky books back to life. Viewers of Singlemalt.tv may wonder whether we could finally find the stolen bottle of Talisker that Luc hid ‘somewhere’ or not. The answer is ‘no’ because we're civilized people - but we all know Belgians have deep pockets, don’t we? MUSIC – Recommended listening: it's occasional - but excellent - WF music reviewer Dave Broom who first drew our attention to Joanna Newsom who, he wrote, was 'singing in some demented child’s voice'. Well, it seems she got much better within one year, as her excellent new song Sawdust diamonds.mp3 will show us. You must buy her new album 'Ys'! October 4, 2006 TA
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