| #332 Bruichladdich 1986 Blacker Still Single Malt Scotch (Islay) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This cost is what I found the likely shelf price for a 750ml bottle to be, based on an average of costs throughout the USA. Your price may differ significantly. This is not an advertisement of sale, this bottle is likely empty by now anyway Cost | $18500 |  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bottler | Official Bottling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 45 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 51% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tasting # 363: CT7: Oh, Bruichladdich. You won't let me down like Balvenie did, will you? (15-JUN-2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |  it's Bruichladdich with peat. You might read that in a deadpan tone, so let me try and type it like I'm thinking it: Its BRUICHLADDICH... WITH PEAT!!! That comes close, I suppose. I just love Bruichladdich. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Impression | That's a dark bottle. Dark and stately, like a limousine on a rainy night. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smell | Oh my. That's the sweetest, silkiest peat I've ever inhaled with a sherry fog blanketing it. I have the chills. It's a monster growling from the shadows across a moonlit moor, warning you not to tread lightly. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | Dear.... by the gods of whisky, that's the stuff right there. Fantastic. The peat is the big, central player and having mentioned it (mmmmmm) I can move on to the bit cast: Oak, marshmallows, toasted vanilla, nutmeg and a slight metallic ending. There's just so much peat, and it's just so good. I might complain a touch about the one-sided nature of it all, but there really is a lot here to love and it just makes me so very happy. 91. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tasting Score | 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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