Brora 1972 30 Year Old Old Malt Cask
Brora 1972 30 Year Old Old
70cl / 46.6%
A 1972 vintage Brora as part of Douglas Laing’s Old Malt Cask series. Distilled in March, this was aged for 30 years, yielding 204 bottles in April 2002, almost 20 years after the distillery closed.
Colour: deep amber. Nose: very coffeeish and very farmy for a start – it’s a sherry cask, obviously. Maybe not as immediately complex as the G&M but superbly bold and compact, you feel that the development will be long right at first nosing despite the heavy coffee (that will then keep in the background). And then it goes: bitter oranges, wet dog (same breed), wax and paraffin, tar, maple syrup, ‘good’ manure, camphor, bandages, whisky flavoured fudge (that’s obvious, I know), smoked venison, new tyre, very old rum, clean horse stable, chocolate… Well, it IS endless. And just fabulous. Mouth: just like at first nosing, it’s a little simple at very first sip but then it’s a true explosion, the peat and other ‘endemic’ flavours mingling extremely well with the sherry (probably refill). Brora 1972 30 Year Old Old Malt Cask
That does create kind of a 3rd dimension, with lots of salted butter caramel, liquorice, ginseng again, chestnut honey, cough sweets, fir tree honey, very old pu-her tea (I’m saying this because in case you don’t know, the Chinese use to let pu-ehr age in cellars just like wine)… Then dried tangerines, mastic flavoured sweets, a little chlorophyll… Funnily, it’s decreasingly sherried and more and more ‘Brora-ish’. (…) Finish: long, probably a tad drying now but superbly chocolaty and waxy. Brora 1972 30 Year Old Old Malt Cask
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