Brora 1972 29 Year Old Old & Rare Platinum

Brora 1972 29 Year Old Old &amp

• Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
• Douglas Laing

70cl / 59.5%

A legendary bottling of 1972 vintage Brora from independent bottler Douglas Laing as part of the Platinum Selection series. This bottling was awarded an incredible average of 93 points from nine of the malt maniacs.

Colour: straw. Nose: extremely Ardbeggish at first nosing, but with some added complexity, it appears. Big, bold peat smoke together with some pink grapefruit and lots of coastal notes such as fresh oysters and seaweed… Extremely clean for such an old malt. Hints -just hints – of perfumy notes à la Bowmore. Hints of cold ashes and wet stone too, caramel crème. Really beautiful, even if a little austere (which I like). Mouth: wow, very punchy and starting on some big, bold notes of liquorice drops. It’s then very peaty, but in the Talisker vein rather than like an Islayer (although it’s much peatier than Talisker). Brora 1972 29 Year Old Old & Rare Platinum

Huge smoke and lots of pepper and smoked tea, thyme, dried parsley. Hints of bitter orange, crystallized kumquats, mastic candies. Beautifully complex and superbly balanced. Finish: very long and dry but not overpowering, on lapsang souchong tea and green pepper. In, short, a classy Brora, even if it’s very dry and less directly enjoyable than the totally stunning 30yo OB bottled in 2004