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Share a Moment this ChristmasBrora 1977 35 Year Old 12th Release Bot.2013
70cl / 49.9%
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The 12th release of Brora from Diageo's Annual Special Releases, this was distilled in 1977 and has been bottled at 35 years of age. This is a mix of refill American Oak and European Oak casks and is a return to the much loved, earthier character of earlier releases.
Tasting Notes (2)Facts
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Bottler
Distillery Bottling
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Series
Diageo Special Releases 2013
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Age
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Vintage
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Bottling Date
2013
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No of Bottles
2944
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Country
Scotland
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Region
Highland
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Colouring
Yes
Tasting Notes
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Tasting Notes by Billy A
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Nose
Sweet and waxy with pineapple and polished wood at first, but with a farmyard touch at the back. That dirty note grows as it sits in the glass, bringing out more earthiness, herby hints, a wisp of smoke and a touch of sea air.
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Palate
Sweet fruit to start with muddiness and chocolate quickly rolling in. It’s spicy, with mulchy hay, fruity dark chocolate, liquorice and ashy touches. Water amplifies the darker with more liquorice and dark chocolate, as well as turning up the smokiness and bringing out a lightly medicinal character – bandages and wood ash.
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Finish
More liquorice and sweetness, sweet apple, green herbs, chocolate and damp ash.
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Comment
The first comment from tasters around the room was “it’s a Brora this time”, after a few previous batches straying into sweeter and brighter Clynelish territory. On the nose this initially hints that it might go that way, but on the palate it’s dark and smoky, with great depth.
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Producer's Note
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Appearance
Yellow gold or polished brass. Lightly oily.
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Nose
Initially clean, fresh and bracing; then warming, developing depth and richness. Creamy top notes of warm scented wax or vanilla-custard float above a herbal note (basil?) and a sharper, cereal base, all suffused with just a thread of smoke. The nutty, waxy notes sweeten into honeycomb and toasted coconut. The sea appears very late, as a fresh sea breeze. Adding a little water softens the impact and brings up the scented wax, with honey and lemongrass subduing the more subtle vanilla aromas.
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Body
Light and softly coating.
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Palate
Good texture and a surprising taste: much sweeter than you expect from the nose, and much more smoky, with a most attractive tongue-coating smoothness. A leafy hint of fresh picked strawberry introduces lemon zest and candied peel to set the tongue tingling. Then damp beach notes of wood, sand and sea air round off a beautifully balanced palate. With water added this is a very easy-drinking, rewarding dram: fuller in texture than when at full strength, it is also less sweet, becoming mouth drying, cleansing and softly smoky.
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Finish
Coating, chewy and softly drying, with minty chocolate (after-dinner mints). Wood smoke lingers in the complex, fresh and spicy conclusion.
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Customer Reviews
Reviews
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5
Another winner from Brora consumed on Boxing Day lunch with about a dozen others. Quite waxy and oily on the mouth then lemony almost Semillon like on the palate. Sea spray, light peat and a little more smoke on the finish. Complex. Truly a whisky to savour and enjoy over a couple of hours. Didn't use water at all.
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5
Amazing Brora 35 yrs OB! Same quality along with 2004 and 2005 Release. 96-98 pts
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5
A superb mix of wax, oily grass, breadiness, wooliness, honey and lemon liquorice. Great body. Aftertaste surprises with old furniture and fur, I usually don''t expect those notes that late. It''s 5/5 and overall an excellent but I feel like the peat''s a bit less ''massive'' than in some of the earlier OBs which makes them just a bit better than this one.
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