Brora - 30 Year old.

A limited edition, natural cask strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

From a closed distillery at Brora, on the coast.

Very rare at this age.

Ninth of a limited series of annual releases.

Annual allocation extends availability of this irreplaceable malt but stocks now depleted.

Vatted from a mixture of American & European Oak refill casks, over 30 years old.

Only 2,958 individually numbered bottles.

DESCRIPTION: A distinguished and memorable Brora with all the key characteristics; exquisite sweetness, rich fruitiness and magnificently appetising savoury smoke are all here to explore.

APPEARANCE: Mid-amber. Medium beading, large beads.

NOSE: Mild nose-feel. A delicate, complex and appetising old nose that slowly reveals a balance of buttery softness and acetic sharpness. (Rather like the aroma of a Hollandaise sauce). Develops gently, vanilla alternating with sharper, faintly coastal notes. With time, in true Brora style, there’s a pleasing waxiness, and hints of old lavender, as in a dried-out pot-pourri. Water enhances these fragrant notes, and adds the scent of crisply laundered fine linen, while the waxiness becomes heavier (polished church pews). Later, there are traces of roast meat, and that appealing herbal fragrance persists.

BODY: Dense. Oily and smooth.

PALATE: At first smooth, sweet and honeyed, then a split-second later drying, with instant smoke and medicinal notes. More savoury notes rise with (a little) water. There’s a lightly teeth-coating waxiness. Sweet overall, but with slight saltiness and an intriguing herbal flavour.

FINISH: Long and scented. At first, elegant with long malty notes: rich fruitiness with a charred, smoky backdrop. Then drying, with smouldering oak. Finally, salty-sweet.