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	Bruichladdich
			Sample
O.B.	Ten	16 1/4
	12 years, Second edition
	The Norrie Campbell Tribute Bottling (3D3)	18
	Links - The Old Course, St Andrews, 17th hole	17
	Moine Mhor (3D, second release)	19
	The resurection dram	18
	Fifteen	18 2/5
	Eighteen	16
	1984	18
	1998, Manzanilla Jerez	19
	1998, Oloroso Jerez	18
	1992, sherry Fino		18
	1992 Sherry Pedro Ximenez		18
	Infinity
	Links - the 16th hole - Augusta	18 1/3
	Links - the 18th green, Royal Troon	18
	Links - Birkdale, Engalnd	18
	Port Charlotte PC6
	Port Charlotte PC7
	Port Charlotte PC8
	Twenty	17
	Distillery Micro-provenance series, cask 198
	Distillery Micro-provenance series, cask 71
	Port Charlotte PC5
	Valinch 8.26
Cadenhead	12 years. Authenthic collection	18
Malts of Scotland	2001, Port Charlotte Bourbon Barrel		18
	2001, Port Charlotte Sherry Hogshead		18
The Vintage Malt Whisky company	Coopers Choice 1991 Port Wood		17
Wilson & Morgan	Wilson & Morgan 1993	18
Wemyss	Creamy Charlie 1993	18

 

Bruichladdich Ten
Age	10 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Casks	Bourbon (40%) Sherry (60%)
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

 

 As an exception in the world of Islay whiskies, Bruichladdich produces non peaty whiskies. The nose detects some fruity fragrances, far away from other whiskies from the same Island. The mouth feeling is slightly acid, remaining citrus fruits. A too short finish. An interesting bottle, especially if related to its price.

A sweet smell of ripe fruits (pears) followed by a sweet and malted taste. A short finish. An interesting whisky. However, this distillery has much better products on the market.

A very fresh nose with apple hints. A contrast between orange acidity notes on a background of malt. A coastal whisky. A nice finish, short but pleasant, where the salty character of this whisky remains for some times in memory.

A fresh nose combining harmoniously hay and cut grass with fruity hints, green apple, and other clear but less pleasant ones such as yeast. In the palate, a kind of acidity and pear spirit hints are followed by slightly bitter nutty notes. No great surprise but no deception neither. The finish is lingering and fresh, marked by unripe walnut or woody bitterness.

 

Bruichladdich 12 years old, Second edition
Age	12 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

Comment by Johannes Sauer

Colour: Brite straw.
Nose: Soft fruits. A very delicious sour fruite note dominates clearly: Unripe Apples, green grapes, redcurrants or gooseberries sugared very little. No lemon or citrus notes, but you could guess rich vitamines in this dram from this nose. Soft malt or caramel (vanilla) in the back.
Taste: Not sour at all; no more healthy vitamines ... The vanilla is much stronger here, same like cereal notes. A subtle sweetness and even a little smoke with delicious herbal wood notes which lead into a soft
Finish: Full and warming and not very long but very well balanced.
Conc.: A very fine and pleasant whisky very satisfying for a Laddie to fit my budget. Great fruity berry-nose...

Tasting date: 25/05/2010
Price in Germany: 34,90 Euro

 

Bruichladdich Fifteen
Age	15 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Casks	Bourbon (80%) Sherry Aloroso (20%)
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

 

 Bruichladdich has a place apart in the world of Islay whiskies. Far away from the strong peat smells from Ardbeg or Lagavulin, the distillery from Port Charlotte is characterized by a great complexity of fragrances and tastes. This 15 years old version also has in addition to all those olfactory and gustative qualities, a very long finish, which lets us enjoy this exceptional bottle for long minutes. The non chill filtration adds some wild complexity which enhances the pleasure. This is a bottle to recommend to anybody.

Some undergrowth smells, with some discrete banana hints on the background come from this whisky. The palate is rather complex and very pleasant, with some malt touches, but refined with some very sweet and sugared spice. A very nice finish.

A very clear nose, with some maritime hints (salt, seaweed), special fruity touches on a sherry background, with some fine woody hints. The pleasantly complex palate reveals some sherry too, along with a surprising marriage of flavours somewhere between the sweet and the spiced, between banana and exotic fruit. A nice finish, lingering and warm, where some maritime hints confirm the nose.

The nose presents a nice evolution. First a rather flat impression of malt mixed with yeast, followed by the apparition of some citrus notes before developing in the complexity with fine woody hints and fruity notes (plum). Very interesting nose. The palate reveals immediately the citrus hints, with nice nutty nuances and exotic fruit. A refined woody taste follows the first acid impression. Very complex and rather amazing mouth. The finish is lingering and first very fresh before developing on a nice bitterness while keeping this acid impression which was dominating the mouth. Excellent bottle.

 

 

Bruichladdich Twenty
Age	20 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Casks	Bourbon
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

 

 I guess the price of this bottle is more due to the age of the whisky than by its quality. This whisky is really excellent, but compare to the 15 years old version, it is a little bit disappointing, and it is difficult to forget about the price.... This version (which is difficult to find now) is however still a reference. The finish is also a little bit disappointing, because quite shorter than the 15 years old version.

A rather discrete nose, however pleasant and perfumed, slightly acid announces an interesting bottle The taste remains a kind of spicy malt, and the finish comes back to sea hints and is of average length. A good bottle, but this confirms that older whisky does not always mean exceptional quality....

The nose varies between sweetness and acidity, with fruity notes, ripe melon to (sweet) lemon on the background. A certain complexity in the palate, with some discrete nuances from malt to fruits. A pleasant finish, a bit woody and slightly salted.

The nose is slightly spiced with tobacco hints, sherry and resin. Despite this diversity of tastes, the nose remains rather common and simple, with a lack of excitement. In the palate a clear impression of linearity even if it does not make it a bad whisky. Woody notes mixed to citrus fruits dominate this quite boring whisky. The finish is relatively short, in slightly bitter tones, and without any extravagance.

 

 

Bruichladdich 8.26 Valinch
Age	19 years
Alcohol percentage	58,8%
Particularity	Non chill filtered Cask Strength Sherry Oloroso This whisky is bottled by the buyer himself directly at the distillery. Only 826 bottles of 50 cl are marketed.
Casks	Sherry Oloroso
Bottling	Jean-Marie Putz
Price/litre

 

 

 

 

Bruichladdich 1984
Age	18 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

 

The nose is very pleasant and complex, somewhere between the malt and some sweet citrus fruit, without acidity followed by a nice impression in the palate, with some peat hints. An exceptionally long finish, and the whole makes a wonderful whisky, allying the aroma complexity and a perfectly balanced whole.  

A nice sea influenced nose, fresh and fruity. Pears on a beach. In the palate, a very nice and complex feeling with a very slight touch of peat and a remote taste of walnut and an impression of chocolate toffee. A nice and lingering finish, where the sweet notes of toffee seem to dominate some remote woody hints.

The third time, the nose remained very fresh, but a kind of hay smell seemed to dominate the fruity hints on a marine background. The mouth is first slightly dry and bitter, a little bit peaty, and goes on on ripe fruits and the finish is at the time sweet and slightly bitter.

Quite an expressive fruity nose. Very nice complexity with aromas going from plum jam to green apple through discrete notes of exotic fruit.
The mouth confirms the foes. First some slightly acid notes developing quickly on a kind of bitterness while keeping the ripe fruits notes alive. Very nice mouth.
The finish is fresh and lingering, and fruit continues to dominate.

 

Bruichladdich Links The 16th hole. Augusta
Age	14 years
Alcohol	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

The nose is characterised by a great freshness, however rather discrete, with some liquorice hints, followed by a palate recalling some old violet sweets from our childhood, a little like the special finishes (port or claret) from Bowmore. The peat and the smoke are extremely discrete, and share the attention with a lot of other fragrances, giving this whisky an exceptionally complex character. The finis is long and spicy, and some liquorice hints continue to develop. A very good bottle.

The nose is fresh and salty, however it remains discrete despite a slightly spicy touch recalling liquorice. In the palate, a very pleasant complexity, allying violet flavours to a discretely smoked peat and some ripe fruits hints. A very long and pleasant finish, sweet with some non dominant woody hints. A very subtle whisky, to taste in a quiet atmosphere because concentration enhances the pleasure offered by such a whisky.

Quite a classical nose, made from malted barley and fruits behind a light veil of smoke. A touch of chocolate and coffee and a slight woody note. A flower touch is present at retro- olfaction. In the palate, some nice development from bitter, slightly woody notes on acid hints and then back to the first bitterness, The whole on a vast taste palette. Not a classical woody bitterness, but something like a bitter fruit, and not a classical citrus bitterness, but something with more nuances. The finish is long, again marked by this strange fruity bitterness (bitter exotic fruits, gentian)> After rereading previous notes, it appears that the perception is quite different this time. However, no doubt about the quality of this nice whisky.

 

Bruichladdich Links The 18th green, Royal Troon
Age	14 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

A floral nose, fresh and complex with some slightly acid hint on a malt background is followed by an impression of honey with bitterness touches in the palate. Citrus fruits on the background, with malt hints confirm the impression left by the first nosing. A lingering finish with some far-off sherry notes.

The nose is clearly on cerals with some fruity hings. The palate confirms the first nosing with some honey and slightly acid hints in addition, giving the whole a nice structure. The finish is quite long and fruity and malty touches interlace with some citrus notes.

The nose is clearly marked by fruit and spices. A smell of seaweed and sea spray is present as well, sometimes hiding nice but discrete floral hints. A nice mix of spices in the palate, together with some peat and citrus fruits, a light touch of liquorice and quite discrete fruity notes (plum). The finish is very long and pleasant. A long impression of peat and spices. Impressive finish.

 

Bruichladdich - 3D, second release - Moine Mohr
Age	no age statement
Alcohol percentage	50%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

A very nice and complex nose, where peat is present without dominating the whole, leaving some room to delicate notes of ripe fruits (pear) and to a kind of vegetal freshness. In the palate, a very nice complexity too, allying dry peat touches and fruity, slightly spicy ones, on a background of smoke. A very nice finish, slightly bitter and dominated by peaty hints. A very nice bottle.

Comment by Audra B. Morrison

I expected a smoother finish from a triple-peated scotch: the finish is younger and more overpowering than the nose and the initial mouth.

Bruichladdich Aged 18 years
Age	18
Alcohol percentage	46%
Cask	Vin de paille "Opitz One"
Bottler	Officiel
Price/litre

The first nose is quite discrete with hints of cereals and some strange beer notes. Then some other even discrete notes of hay and some remote sea spray ones.
The mouth is more pleasant than the nose was, with its little acid taste. However, no great complexity, nothing worth to be said, except this kind of white wine after taste. After all, the mouth is even deceiving than the nose. Lets hoe the finish will be better.
The finish is rather acid and a kind of tingling remains on the papilla's. Not very long neither, the memory of this beer taste remains for some short instants. For a whisky of that age, one could expect much better. This is my first deception by Bruichladdich.

Bruichladdich Port Charlotte PC6
Age	6 years
Alcohol percentage	61.6%
Bottler	Officiel
Price/litre

Bruichladdich Port Charlotte PC7
Age	7 ans
Taux d'alcool	61%
Embouteilleur	Officiel
Prix/litre

Bruichladdich Port Charlotte PC8
Age	8 years
Alcohol percentage	60,5%
Bottler	Officiel
Price/litre

Bruichladdich - 3D3, third release - The Norrie Campbell Tribute bottling
Age	no age statement
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottling	Official
Price/litre

The nose is delightfully and finely peated with a hint of seaweed and sea spray.
In the palate, a delicate oily peat dominates clearly more discrete hints, made of cacao and vanilla. The whole is very smooth. Really amazing.
The finish is very pleasant, rather long and the chocolate notes come back, followed by some peat.

Bruichladdich Infinity
Age	No age statement
Alcohol percentage	55.5%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

Bruichladdich Links Birkdale, England
Age	15 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

A nice spicy nose with notes of malt and some light hints of yeast.
The mouth is pleasantly spicy too. Nice complexity, smoothness and character.
The finish is lingering and perfectly harmonized with the mouth.

Bruichladdich The resurection dram
Age	7 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chillfiltered
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

Quite a farmy nose, mix of malt and wet hay , undergrowth smells and a touch of peat. Some meat hints? Salt, iodine, sea spray.
The mouth is somewhere between malt and walnut, wit nice developments from the one to the other one. Nice complexity. Mix of sea and spices, but not fruit in this one. Pleasantly different... for those who know the Bruichladdich range.
The finish is lingering and marked by both hints of peat and of slightly bitter unripe walnut and the sea remains present...
A nice surprise, this first distillation of the new owners of the distillery. New... from 2000!

Bruichladdich 1998 Sherry series Manzanilla Jerez
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

What a nice and subtle nose! Malt, heather, flowers, honey and dry fruit. Very nice complexity.
The mouth prolongs perfectly the nose. Same impressions of complex subtlety. Remarkable palate.
Nice finish, lingering and relatively fresh. The impression of dry fruit and flowers persists for a while.
This version is in my opinion superior to the Oloroso one.

Bruichladdich 1998 Sherry series Oloroso Jerez
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

The nose is very perfumed. Nice presence of sherry and interesting fruity notes. May be a little bit too much, but the nose remains pleasant.
The first mouth is rather dry with a clear woody impression, but fortunately it develops rather quickly showing a great complexity. The taste remains marked by bitterness (which was not announced by the nose)> Quite a nice mouth, except if ripe walnut is not your preferred taste or if you do not like this contrast between a smooth nose and a bitter to acid mouth.
The smoothness comes back in the finish. Fruity aspects dominate the long and pleasant finish. An excellent and contrasted whisky.

Bruichladdich 1992 Distillery Micro-Provenance series. Single cask. Cask evoluation exploration Cask #71
Age	17 years
Acohol percentage	53,9 %
Particularitiess	non chill filtered
Cask	Bourbon Single Cask
Bottler	Officiel
Price/litre

Bruichladdich 1992 Distillery Micro-Provenance series. Single cask. Cask evoluation exploration Cask #198
Age	17 years
Alcohol percentage	51 %
Particularities	Non chill filtered
Casks	Bourbon Single Cask
Bottler	Officiel
Price/litre

Bruichladdich Links The Old Course, St Andrews 17th hole
Age	14 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Officiel
Price/litre

The nose is marked by both hay and malt hints. Pleasant without being really complex.
The mouth is quite pleasant too. A bit smoother than announced by the nose. This is really a daily dram. No flaw, but nothing really exciting neither.
Long and pleasant finish.

Bruichladdich 1994-2001 12 years old Cadenhead's Authentic Collection
Age	12 years
Alcohol percentage	56%
Casks	Bourbon hogshead
Bottling	Cadenhead's
Price/litre

The nose develops interesting malty, marine and salty notes behind a quite clear spicy (pepper) touch, together with floral hints, discrete, but clearly present. In the palate, the first impression is that this is a fruit alcohol, pear or apple. A discrete complexity, but rather present again. A nice evolution from fruits to salted malt, however keeping a clear acid hint which can be sometimes rather bothering before aeration, but which is part of the pleasure after the whisky "opened". A nice finish, slightly dry and earthy, where the memory of the fruits which marked the mouth are still present.

Very nice and expressive nose, pleasantly fruity and very fresh. Ripe fruits (pears, bananas) and green apple. Nice floral notes as well.
The palate is rather fresh too, quite complex ith nice fruity notes developing on acid freshness of green apple. A light veil of vanilla over the whole. Touches of sea spray. Salt. Very nice development of the taste, for a whisky which remains less complex than first announced.
The finish is long and fresh, and a kind of bitterness (cashew nuts) which was completely absent in the mouth appears after a while. A very pleasant bottle.

Bruichladdich 1993 Wilson & Morgan
Age	11 years
Alcohol percentage	50%
Bottling	Wilson & Morgan
Price/litre

An amazing fresh nose, marked by a clear smell of freshly cut hay, a touch of peat and discrete hints of smoke. Some discrete spices as well (pepper). In the palate, a nice balance between peaty smoke and some "pale" fruits (peaches), and a kind of bitterness which is quite difficult to qualify. A nice finish, relatively long, with hints marked at the time by a kind of acidity and some spices on a malted barley background.

Hay, barley, a touch of smoke and pepper characterise the nose.
The palate is relatively sweet and a touch of acidity first followed by bitterness, but which disappears soon to make room to a great malty smoothness with nice hints of ripe fruit. Very nice evolution in the mouth.
The finish is lingering and warm and retains essentially the ripe fruit aspects which made this tasting so pleasant.

Bruichladdich - 1993 - Wemyss
Age	No age statement
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottler	Wemyss
Price/litre

Smells of hay and flowers followed by a light veil of smoke characterises the first nose. Very pleasant, it constantly develops and the small tingling which was present in the beginning disappear after a while.
The mouth is complex, developing from a sweet smoothness to a pleasant nutty bitterness in a few seconds. But when the development reaches its top, a quite annoying alcohol presence seems to dominate. A pity, but it does not really kill the pleasure.
The finish is less spectacular than the mouth was. Its length is medium , and this finish is not unforgettable.

Bruichladdich Port Wood 1991 Coopers Choice
Alcohol percentage	46%
Bottling	The Vintage Malt Whisky Wompany
Price/litre

The nose is first rather discrete, with some notes of hay, but it developes quickly on clear peppery notes and gives a quite salty impresssion.
In the palate, a mix of pepper and wine vinegar, spices and acid hints, rather surprising, but sure not unpleasant.
The finish is slightly acid too. I
t is certainly not the best Bruichladdich I have had, but the very particular taste makes it an interesting bottle.

PC5 Port Charlotte
Age	5 years
Alcohol percentage	63.5%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

Bruichladdich 1992 Sherry Pedro Ximenez
Age	No age statement
Taux Alcohol	46%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

Interesting floral notes at the first nosing, iodine and a touch of smoke. Very good begin. Nice complexity. Quite pleasant nose.
The mouth is excellent too. Mix of ripe fruit, a touch of acidity, milk chocolate notes. The whole is pleasantly smooth.
The finish is lingering and even pleasant as the nose was.
Another good bottle.

Bruichladdich 1992 Sherry Fino
Age	No age statement
Taux Alcohol	46%
Bottler	Official
Price/litre

The nose is pleasantly marked by smoke and iodine motes, with touches of chocolate. Quite a rich nose anyway.
The first nose is rather smooth before developing on nice chocolate notes with some acid touches.
The finish is lingering and smooth, with notes of cashew nuts and cocoa.
Another very interesting bottle, even if the Pedro Ximenez version was a bit superior in my eyes.

Port Charlotte Malts of Scotland cask 967
Age	8 ans
Alcohol percentage	60,2%
Bottler	Malts of Scotland
Price/litre

Nice oily peat at the firs nose. The peat is clearly present even if it is not too dominating. On the background, ripe fruits with a discrete touch of chocolate.
in the mouth, chocolate dominate and the taste gently develops on more acid notes. It is strange, but the high percentage of alcohol just becomes obvious after a while. Nice complexity. This mouth is pleasantly subtle.
The finish is long and warm and the memory of chocolate remains for long minutes.

Port Charlotte Malts of Scotland cask 833 sherry hogshead
Age	8 years
Alcohol percentage	61,6%
Bottler	Malts of Scotland
Price/litre

A discrete smell of peat mixed with pleasant acid fruity notes announce a nice balance, specially when those subtle chocolate notes appear after a while.
The mouth in first very smooth with nice milk chocolate notes and the strength of the alcohol waits on some slightly acid notes to appear and disappear again when chocolate hints begin to dominate again.
Very nice finish, long and amazingly smooth, with principally nice chocolate notes and some nutty impressions.

Bruichladdich Fifteen Second edition
Age	15 years
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottling	Official

Comment by Ian Hunter

Strong nose...slight peat with floral notes. First taste, full bodied, lively, complex. Finishes long...that slight peat is constant drom start to finish, I find it adds to the overall taste.
17,5/20

Comment by Henrik Johansson

Apperance: Pale gold
Nose: Quite clean first impressions, a lightly peated nose with a hint of leatheryness, some plastic elements, linen and fish stew. The diluted nose becomes more burnt with some coal-gas which was barely noticable in the straight dram. Aniseed, mustard and salted oysters blend with some mossy water and a fresh, interesting tangerine smell.
Body: Medium, slightly heavierPalate: Sweet start, mouth filling and pleasant. Quite gentle and clean to start with, there's a slightly earthy flavour which then becomes vanilla-like and slightly kippery. The finish is very long and salutes a very nice dram.
88/100

Bruichladdich Peat
Alcohol percentage	46%
Particularity	Non chill filtered
Bottling	Official

Comment by Johannes Sauer

Colour: Brass.
Nose: Very fresh and easy with delicate citrus fruits. Grapefruit marmalade. Fine wooden notes, the peat is in my impression more the direction of Campbeltown than Islay whiskies, more in a woody or floral than a smoky way. A very fine and subtle salty sea weed breeze to round the picture.
Taste: Peppery, more peaty and chemical than the nose suggests. The nice floral and fruity notes are a little pushed back by the now more dominant peat but they can easily be put back in place with some drops of water.
Finish: Very round and firm and lasting a good, long and pleasureful while. Now the chemical impression mingles most beautifull with a pinch of brown sugar, black pepper, bitterroot and the clear traces of seaweed. A fine and very varied and still balanced finish.
Conc.: The nose and the taste make a fine whisky. But this finish makes it a magnificent dram.

Tasting date: 26/05/2010
Price in Germany: 40 Euro